Villon's Wife
2009·Japan·114 min.
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This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him.
DirectorKichitaro Negishi
MusicTakashi Yoshimatsu
CinematographyTakahide Shibanushi
CastTakako Matsu·Tadanobu Asano·Shigeru Muroi·Masatô Ibu·Ryoko Hirosue·Satoshi Tsumabuki·Shin'ichi Tsutsumi
Original titleViyon no tsuma (Villon's Wife)