
Cinetrā

Cinetrā

This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival
Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Takako Matsu, Shigeru Muroi, Masatô Ibu, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Ryoko Hirosue, Ken Mitsuishi, Mirai Yamamoto, Takuji Suzuki, Masayuki Shida, Hirofumi Arai, Erika Okuda, Hidekazu Mashima, Taijirō Tamura, Shohei Uno
Writers: Osamu Dazai (Novel), Yōzō Tanaka (Screenplay)
Cinematographer: Takahide Shibanushi
Production Designer: Yohei Taneda, Kyouko Yauchi
Editor: Akimasa Kawashima
Composer: Takashi Yoshimatsu
Costume Designer: Kazuko Kurosawa
Direction team: 岩倉みほ子 (Script Supervisor), Masaya Takahashi (Assistant Director)
Producers: Miyoshi Kikuchi, Takashi Ishihara, Kuga Maeda
Production: TOHO, Fuji Television Network, PAPADO Music Publishers, Shinchosha Company