Abstract:

In this stylized, surrealist dramatization of the Bunraku puppet theater play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Jihei abandons business, family and self respect for a passionate love affair with a geisha whose freedom he cannot afford. As the world closes in upon him, he finds his only course of action to be death together with the lover he is unable to obtain in life. With Nakamura Kichiemon, Iwashita Shima, Takita Yusuke