Takako Matsu, Tadanobu Asano star in Dazai adaptation

[Tokyograph News]

Takako Matsu has been given her first starring role in a feature-length film, tentatively titled "Viyon no Tsuma" ("Villon's Wife"). Based on the story of the same name by Osamu Dazai, the movie will open in theaters during the fall of 2009, a hundred years after Dazai's birth.

The story is set in the postwar era of Japan. Matsu plays Sachi, the wife of a writer (Tadanobu Asano). Despite her husband's unfaithfulness, abuse, and debt from drinking too much alcohol, Sachi displays a strong will to live and is determined to find meaning in her life.

Screenwriter Yozo Tanaka is said to have worked on the script for five years. Director Kichitaro Negishi and producer Chihiro Kameyama will be in charge of the project, which is set to start filming in September.

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Matsu Takako was pretty much the female lead in last year's Hero.

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Matsu Takako was pretty much the female lead in last year's Hero.

Being the female lead to a starring male isn't quite the same as being *the* central character.