Journey of a Dying Wife (2011)

• 60%
• 2011
• Drama
• Yukinari Hanawa
• Tomokazu Miura
• Yuriko Ishida
• Aki Nishihara

A businessman who owns his own business becomes the guarantor for a friend who is borrowing money from a lender. Sadly, the friend disappears leaving the man on the hook for the loan. This comes at a time when his own business is failing. When it rains it pours and as he concentrates on his problems and lack of funds, he finds out that his wife has contracted cancer. Despite immediate surgery the doctor's prognosis of the disease is negative. She will not live long. They begin to travel together by car and are on the road for nine months. Upon her death the police arrest and jail the widow believing their travel was negligent and accelerated the woman's death. He is sent to jail. Being imprisoned for over a year gives him time to remember, reminisce and ponder their travels and time on the road.