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Villon's Wife

6.6 average rating
6.6
Japanese / 114 MIN. / 2009

The Genres

The Synopsis

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. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival

The Cast

Tadanobu AsanoTakako MatsuShigeru MuroiMasatô IbuSatoshi TsumabukiShinichi TsutsumiRyoko HirosueKen MitsuishiMirai YamamotoTakuji SuzukiMasayuki ShidaHirofumi AraiErika OkudaHidekazu MashimaTaijirō TamuraShohei Uno

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