If you loved Distant Thunder, try Villon's Wife
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Both films are directed by Kichitaro Negishi, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Distant Thunder, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Villon's Wife is
Here's a film unafraid to ask: can a marriage survive a bad novelist? Set in post-war Tokyo, a long-suffering wife must deal with her husband's drinking, affairs, and general inability to be a decent human being. It's a portrait, then, of a woman who loves too much, or at least tolerates far too much.
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