L'Histoire de la femme

Midnight meets Ozu. A mother’s silent calendar is filled with dead husbands and a son’s disappointing romance. A decades-spanning diary in sightlines and sighs, led by Kinuyo Tanaka’s exhausted eloquence.

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Mikio Naruse directed L'Histoire de la femme in 1963. See Mikio Naruse's full filmography, where to start with Mikio Naruse, or where to go after you've seen everything by Mikio Naruse.

L'Histoire de la femme was released in 1963 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 126 minutes.