aka An Affair with a Woman in Mourning is a 2001

2001 in film

The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...

 Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese Pink film directed by Daisuke Gotō. It won the Silver Prize at the Pink Grand Prix

Pink Grand Prix

The or is an annual Japanese film award ceremony which recognizes excellence in the pink film. Known as the "Academy Awards of the Pink Film", the ceremony attracts a diverse audience of industry personnel, film scholars and the general public....

 ceremony. Personnel awards also went to Mayuko Sasaki for Best Actress, 2nd place and Masahide Iioka for Cinematography.

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. A suspense-pink in homage to The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).

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