A Woman's Life

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 A Woman's Life 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.

A Woman's Life was released in 1963 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 126 minutes.