Villon's Wife (2009)
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
- Released
- 2009-10-10
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kichitaro Negishi, Yōzō Tanaka
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 from 12 votes
Cast
- Tadanobu Asano as Otani
- Takako Matsu as Sachi
- Shigeru Muroi as Miyo
- Masatô Ibu as Kichizo
- Satoshi Tsumabuki as Okada
- Shinichi Tsutsumi as Tsuji
- Ryoko Hirosue as Akiko
- Ken Mitsuishi as Policeman
- Mirai Yamamoto as Woman of Otani's group
- Takuji Suzuki
- Masayuki Shida as Detective
- Hirofumi Arai as Department worker