「葵上」で、かつての恋人への思いが断ち切れず、生霊となって姿を現す六条康子を演じる中谷は、「リスクがないと燃えないタイプ。お金はかけたことはないが人生でのギャンブルが好きなのでお受けした」と語る。康子は源氏物語の登場人物である六条御息所をモデルにしており、女の嫉妬や怨念を体現する役どころだ。「六条御息所は能の舞台では般若として描かれています。私も心の中に日々般若を抱きながら演じさせていただいた」と振り返った中谷の相手役を務めた柄本は「あれ、ちょっと怖いと思いながら撮影に入って、お芝居になるともっと怖かった……」と、中谷の現場での凄みのある姿を明かし会場を笑わせた。

A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.

The film begins in the present, with its heroine, Kaoru, a grown-up woman working as a real-estate agent, while helping out the folksy proprietor of a neighborhood fishing pond. There she meets a shy girl who needs her help baiting a hook and reminds her of herself in the fourth grade.

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