On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning flames, Mitsuko, who was exhausted by her affair, suddenly thought of suicide. As a result, she escaped too late from the bus and suffered a serious injury. From there, she was hospitalized for a long time. As she gradually recovered, the wife of her affair partner, Soroku Sugihara, died of cancer. Soroku proposed to Mitsuko again, and they lived together. Due to Soroku’s mounting debt, they decided to flee to Tojinbo. With the desperate persuasion of her acquaintances, Mitsuko regained her desire to “live again.”
Tag: extramarital affair
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Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy’s long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
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The Bedroom Window
Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry’s bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that same night another girl is found murdered.
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Fatal Attraction
A married man’s one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
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Dead Ringers
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
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New Year
A businessman (Prathapachandran) gets murdered by his driver. His daughter Rekha (Urvashi) is married to Vinod (Suresh Gopi) who is more interested in taking over the business than taking care of his wife. Rekha’s erstwhile boyfriend Ajith (Jayaram) who’s now in the army is more sympathetic to her, but Vinod gets suspicious about their relationship.
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The Sheltering Sky
An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
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Lovers: A True Story
Set in ’50s Spain, a young man leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée can get married. He rents a room from a widow, and shortly begins a torrid affair with her. The fiancée figures it out and decides to win him back by offering herself to him and taking him to meet her family. Ultimately he has to make a decision. Based on a true story.
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The Prince of Tides
A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister’s psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.