The Affair
– Oriko’s and her mother had a difficult relationship. She knew of her mother’s relationships with..
Oriko’s and her mother had a difficult relationship. She knew of her mother’s relationships with men, and insisted she stop, interfering in the affair. Now that her mother has passed away, Oriko attempts to find out more about her from her lovers. Oriko herself is in an unhappy marriage; one without love. She wishes to divorce him, but her husband refuses. Through this dilemma she begins to understand her mother more and more, and that they are more alike than she thinks.
01 Feb 1969
Japanese
Yoshishige Yoshida
Masaaki Tachihara (novel), Yoshishige Yoshida (screenplay), Tsutomu Tamura (screenplay)
Mariko Okada, Yoshie Minami, Tadahiko Sugano, Shigako Shimegi
A woman, unhappily married to a cheating executive, starts meeting her dead mother's lover and gets thrown into a romantic dilemma after succumbing to a rough laborer.