Movie: Villon's Wife

Top 10 Billed Cast

Tadanobu Asano
浅野忠信

Otani

Takako Matsu
松たか子

Sachi

Shigeru Muroi
室井滋

Miyo

Masatô Ibu
伊武雅刀

Kichizo

Satoshi Tsumabuki
妻夫木聡

Okada

Shinichi Tsutsumi
堤真一

Tsuji

Ryoko Hirosue
広末涼子

Akiko

Ken Mitsuishi
光石研

Policeman

Mirai Yamamoto
山本未來

Woman of Otani's group

Takuji Suzuki
鈴木卓爾

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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. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival

  • Release Date

    2009-10-10

  • Average

    6.6

  • Rating:

    3.3 starts
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  • Languages:

    日本語
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