Mourning Wife Explained

Mourning Wife
Director:	Daisuke Gotō^[1]
Producer:	Daisuke Gotō
Music:	Kazumi Ōba
Cinematography:	Masahide Iioka
Editing:	Shōji Sakai
Distributor:	Shintōhō Eiga
Runtime:	60 minutes
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese

, a.k.a. An Affair with a Woman in Mourning, is a 2001 Japanese Pink film directed by Daisuke Gotō. It is a suspense-pink film in homage to The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).^[2] It won the Silver Prize at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony. Personnel awards also went to Mayuko Sasaki for Best Actress, 2nd place and Masahide Iioka for Cinematography.^[3]

Synopsis

Tomoko, the wife of an impotent and bitter man, hires a younger man to help her run her printing press business. She becomes involved in an affair with him.

Cast

Mayuko Sasaki: Tomiko Tachibana
Koharu Yamasaki: Kyōko Yano
Yukijirō Hotaru: Yutaka
Kenichi Kanbe: Patient on crutches
Shiori Kawamura: Nurse / Kaori
Hiroyuki Kawasaki: Hiroyuki
Keisaku Kimura: Ryūzō Sakata
Yoshikata Matsuki: Mamoru Tachibana
Kanae Mizuhara: Kanae
Kumiko Mori: Kumiko
Hōryū Nakamura: Akira
Toshimasa Niiro: Akio

Bibliography

English

- Web site: Mourning Wife . 2009-06-28 . pinkeiga.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090422211348/http://pinkeiga.com/HTML/MourningWife.html . April 22, 2009 .

Japanese

Web site: http://www.dmm.co.jp/digital/nikkatsu/-/detail/=/cid=186_0119/. ja:喪服の女崩れる. 2009-06-28. Japanese. www.dmm.co.jp.
Web site: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2001/dy002690.htm. ja:喪服の女崩れる. 2009-06-28. Japanese. Japanese Movie Database.
Web site: http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/data/2001/010910/kuzureru.htm. ja:喪服の女崩れる. 2009-06-28. Japanese. P.G. Web Site.
Web site: http://xcity.jp/avod/detail/?id=11647. ja:喪服の女崩れる. 2012-01-17. xcity.jp. Japanese.

Notes and References

Infobox data from Web site: http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/data/2001/010910/kuzureru.htm. ja:喪服の女崩れる. 2009-06-28. Japanese. P.G. Web Site. and Web site: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2001/dy002690.htm. ja:喪服の女崩れる. 2009-06-28. Japanese. Japanese Movie Database.
Web site: Mourning Wife . 2009-06-28 . pinkeiga.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090422211348/http://pinkeiga.com/HTML/MourningWife.html . April 22, 2009 .
Web site: Best Ten of 2001 (２００１年度ベストテン). January 18, 2009. P.G. Web Site. Japanese. August 5, 2012. https://archive.today/20120805225223/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2001.htm. dead.