The Love Suicides at Takayama

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A budding foreign playwright returns to Japan for one last attempt to free his Japanese artist girlfriend from seclusion in a farming village near the mountain resort of Takayama. To rescue Kimiko the playwright Daniel Singer enlists a well-known film director and a high-spirited character actress to serve as go-betweens. But the pretext for the gathering at the Miyagawa's home is no pretext: they are working on a f ilm script about doomed lovers called</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> The Love Suicides at Takayama.</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> The couple have no peace and no privacy until the final scene where they follow the rituals of love suicide to its liberating end. A take-off on the double suicide domestic tragedy plays of Japan's most revered playwright </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Love Suicides at Takayama</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a screwball comedy a type of cinema known for its farcical situations and fast-paced dialogue that in this case satirizes courtship and social dynamics in Japan.</span></p><p></p><p></p>