Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of her life, she meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her life.
Cast
Yumeji Tsukioka
Fumiko Shimojô
Masayuki Mori
Mori
Ryōji Hayama
Akira Ôtsuki
Yōko Sugi
Kinuko
Shirō Ōsaka
Yoshio
Tōru Abe
Yamagami
Ikuko Kimuro
Seiko
Hiroko Kawasaki
Tatsuko
Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Mrs. Shirakawa
Kinuyo Tanaka
Neighbor's Wife
Junkichi Orimoto
Shigeru Anzai
Chōko Iida
Hide
Bokuzen Hidari
Hide's Husband
Fumie Kitahara
Mrs. Kobayashi
Zenji Yamada
Unknown
Teruyo Hasegawa
Unknown
Crew
Kinuyo Tanaka
Director
Sumie Tanaka
Screenplay
Tadashi Nakamura
Editor
Kumenobu Fujioka
Director of Photography
Yoshitsugu Nakajima
Assistant Director
Eisei Koi
Executive Producer
Shizui Sakagami
Executive Producer
Kimihiko Nakamura
Production Design
Masakazu Kamiya
Sound Recordist
Ko Fujibayashi
Lighting Technician
Takanobu Saitō
Original Music Composer
Fumiko Nakajo
Original Story
Akira Wakatsuki
Original Story
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