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

• TOHO
• Fuji Television Network
• Tadanobu Asano
• Takako Matsu
• Shigeru Muroi
• Masatô Ibu
• Satoshi Tsumabuki
• Shinichi Tsutsumi
• Ryoko Hirosue
• Ken Mitsuishi