Completed - JAPANESE - Family, Comedy - 117 minutes
The screenplay writer of the award-winning 100 Yen Love directs this film, based on his autobiographical novel "A Beloved Wife", about an unemployed screenplay writer and his troublesome wife.
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Shin ADACHI Writer(s) : Shin ADACHI Cast : Gaku HAMADA, Asami MIZUKAWA, Chise NIITSU
An unpopular screenwriter, Gota, and his wife, Chika, have been married for ten years with a daughter between them. Gota earns a paltry $5,000 a year and is a pathetically poor family breadwinner. As such, he is constantly being berated and belittled by Chika. He yearns to restore a normal sex with his wife, but she rebuffs him and forces him to suffer in frustrated silence. And then a big opportunity arrives to turn things around. One of the plots he has been developing based on an actual news story gets noticed, and a request comes in for him to parlay it into a screenplay. But with no guarantee that anything will come of it, Gota hasn’t the funds nor a driver’s license to get him to locations requiring story research and development. So he persuades Chika to drive the family out into the countryside on ostensibly a working vacation for three. A hapless husband and father with reams of unsatisfied sexual desire but no money or work, and a heavily-drinking wife who makes sport in disparaging him. You may wince; you may recoil, but above all, you’ll laugh and cry in spite of yourself as you probe the invisible bonds that keep a desperately married couple together in this endearing family comedy.
Country(ies) : JAPAN
Tokyo International Film Festival 2019 (Best Screenplay Award)