Villon's Wife
Viyon no tsuma
Japan
2010
114 Min
Color
1.85:1
Japanese
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. —Palm Springs International Film Festival