Japanese sale DVD of Tôru Kamei's DOUBLE SUICIDE ELEGY (SHINJÛ EREJÎ), w/ Hidekazu Mashima, Sayur

Tôru Kamei's Double Suicide Elegy (Shinjû erejî) - a.k.a. "Shinju Elegy" - is scheduled to be released on sale DVD (GNBF-7247; NTSC, region 2, no subtitles) in Japan on October 21st; the release is being distributed by Geneon Entertainment K.K. (Jeneon Entateinmento K.K.).

As was previously reported here and there on ScreenAnarchy, the story and screenplay for Double Suicide Elegy were written by Yûji Nagamori, who was also one of the movie's producers. Its principal cast was as follows: Hidekazu Mashima, Sayuri Oyamada (she's in Tomoyuki Furumaya's Sayonara, Midori (Sayonara Midori-chan), and was also in Itsumichi Isomura's Getting Off the Boat at Her Island (Fune o oritara kanojo no shima)), Yûko Nakamura (she was also in Satoshi Miki's In the Pool (In za pûru), Yûichi Onuma's The Suicide Manual 2: Intermediate Stage (Jisatsu manyuaru 2: chûkyû-hen) and Osamu Fukutani's The Suicide Manual (Jisatsu manyuaru)), Shirô Namiki (he's in Takao Nagaishi's Masked Rider: The First (Kamen Raidâ: The First)), Masaki Miura (he's in Yoshihiro Nakamura's Booth (Bûsu) and Ryûichi Honda's Ikusa; he was also in Yôichirô Hayama's Dead Waves (Shiryôha), Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's The Ravaged House: Zoroku's Disease (Tadareta ie: 'Zôroku no kibyô' yori) - one of the movies in the Hideshi Hino's Theater of Horror (Hino Hideshi no za horâ: kaiki gekijô) hexalogy - and Takahisa Zeze's Secret Journey (Yuda) - one of the four movies in the Eros Bancho Series (Erosu banchô shirîzu)), Miho Harita, Takashi Matsuo, Atsushi Narasaka (PDF file), Kyûsaku Shimada (he was also in Satoshi Miki's Kame wa igai to hayaku oyogu, Noboru Iguchi's Snake Girl (Madara no shôjo) - one of the half-dozen hour-long movies in the Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater (Umezu Kazuo: kyôfu gekijô) series - Satoshi Miki's In the Pool (In za pûru), Ataru Oikawa's Tomie: Revenge, and Norio Tsuruta's "Crevices" ("Sukima") in the TV horror movie Dark Tales of Japan (Suiyô puremia: sekai saikyô J horâ SP Nihon no kowai yoru)), and Kôsuke Toyohara (he was also in Takashi Kayane's Naniwa kin'yû-dô: Haibara shôbu! Kishikaisei no otoshimae!!).

Here's a synopsis for Double Suicide Elegy from this page for the movie on the website of Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival 2005 (Yûbari Kokusai Fantasutikku Eigasai 2005): "Mashiro works for a law firm in Kagurazaka. It takes 2 hours for him to commute one way. Kyoko works at the counter in a real-estate agency in Yurakucho. It takes 2 1/2 hours for her to commute one way. They meet each other in a 'double-suicide room' in Nishi-Shinjuku on a pre-arranged day. They are in love and planning to die together. Kyoko's husband, Tsutomu, has a dream to open a natural restaurant and help local farmers. Mashiro's wife, Asami, does clerical work in the town office. The different characters of these four people somehow maintain a balance, but as Tsutomu speaks out, the balance goes off slowly."

Double Suicide Elegy trailer (downloadable 10.3 MB RealMedia file)
Double Suicide Elegy official subsite
Double Suicide Elegy DVD official webpage