Color / American Vista (1:1.85) / 2010 / 119min / 2010 MIZUKI Production, “Gegege no Nyobo” Production Committee
Staff:
Director: SUZUKI Takuji
Screenplay: OISHI Michiko
Screenplay: SUZUKI Takuji
Original Story: MURA Nunoe
Cinematography: TAMURA Masaki
Music: SUZUKI Keiichi
Producer: SATO Masaki
Cast:
FUKIISHI Kazue: MURA Nunoe
KUDO Kankuro: MURA Shigeru
SAKAI Maki: TADOKORO Hatsue
MINAMI Kaho: MURA Kotoe
MURAKAMI Jun: KANENAI Shiro
Synopsis:
A love story depicting the younger days of Mizuma Shigeru, author of “Gegege no Kitaro,” the well-known comic on ‘yokai’ (supernatural beings), and his wife Mura Nunoe, who supported him through the years. Like the hit TV drama version, the film is based on Nunoe’s autobiography, but it focuses mainly on their days as newlyweds when they lived through extreme poverty, and provides a heart-warming account of their struggles as they start a life together. In Shimane prefecture, 1961, 29 year-old Nunoe (Fukiishi Kazue) and Shigeru (Kudo Kankuro), a manga artist who lost his left arm in the war, get married, just five days after being introduced at a matchmaking meeting. They move to Tokyo and endure a life of abysmal poverty.