Completed - JAPANESE - Drama - 114 minutes
~She was like a dandelion. A man who had chosen to be a novelist. His darkness was profound, and would not go away. But if he looked hard, there was his wife, like a single small flower~
Year of production : 2009 Director(s) : Kichitaro NEGISHI Writer(s) : Yozo TANAKA Cast : Takako MATSU, Tadanobu ASANO, Shinichi TSUTSUMI, Ryoko HIROSUE, Satoshi TSUMABUKI, Shigeru MUROI, Masato IBU Producer(s) : Chihiro KAMEYAMA, Michiyo YAMADA, Shigemichi SUGITA
This is the love story of Otani, a man who drinks away all his money and more, who is constantly unfaithful, but a novelist of talent and a strange appeal that makes him impossible to hate; and his wife Sachi, always cheerful and accommodating even as he tramples all over her. Based on the biographical short story by literary legend, Osamu Dazai, the film adaptation commemorates the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
Country(ies) : JAPAN Start of shooting : September 2008