Villon's Wife

Storyline

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

• Runtime

  1h 54min

• Director

  Kichitaro Negishi

Genre

DramaRomance

• Status

  Released

• Language

  Japanese

• Production

  TOHO