Story of a Beloved Wife
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7/10 Letterboxd Duration Country Japan | 7/10 IMDb Director Kaneto Shindo Genres Romance Film, Drama Writer Kaneto Shindo Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Nobuko Otowa Release date 7 September 1951 (1951-09-07) Similar movies Related Kaneto Shindo movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Story of a Beloved Wife (愛妻物語, Aisai Monogatari) is a 1951 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindo. It was Shindo's debut film as a director. It is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.
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Yamazaki, an aspiring screenwriter, played by Jūkichi Uno, is boarding with a couple and their daughter. He and the daughter become involved romantically and the father asks him to leave, and tells the daughter not to marry Yamazaki because of his insecure line of work.
In the end the wife dies of tuberculosis.
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