If you loved Dog in a Sidecar, try Villon's Wife

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Kichitaro Negishi, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Dog in a Sidecar, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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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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