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Originally Posted by WildHearted
Interesting. I've never heard of the movie before - here's the description from IMDB, for what it's worth:
In 18th Century in Japan, the paper merchant Jihei (Kichiemon Nakamura) falls in love for the courtesan Koharu (Shima Iwa****a), but he can not afford to redeem her from her master and owner of the brothel, since he spent all his money in the place with Koharu. Jihei's wife Osan tries to keep her husband with his two children and asks Koharu to leave him. The two lovers make a pact of double suicide to escape from the rigid rules of the Japanese society of 1720 and stay together after death.
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Wow! That falls in line with some of their lyrics in the past few years about not being able to be together but maybe in another life, or maybe in a parellel universe. Wow