Watashi ga suteta onna
The Girl I Abandoned
- Release Date
- September, 3rd, 1969
- Running Time
- 116 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- -
- Screen Size
- Cinema Scope (1:2.35)
[ Directed by ]
[ Cast ]
[ Staff ]
- ENDO Shusaku ── Original Story
- YAMANOUCHI Hisashi ── Screenplay
- ANDO Shohei ── Cinematography
[ Production Company ]
NIKKATSU
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
NIKKATSU
[ Story ]
Tsutomu Yoshioka (Choichiro Kawarazaki) works for a fine company and is satisfied with life for the first time. His future, too, seems very promising since Mariko (Ruriko Asaoka), the niece of the president who works in the same office, is in love with him.
Yoshioka has come up the hard way. Every- thing he has earned has been by sheer fortitude and perseverance. His past life, working his way through the university, had been bleak.
It was during this period that he met Mitsu (Toshie Kobayashi), a simple country girl. At first, it had been just physical intimacy but in time she had grown on him. It was Nagashima, his friend, who had advised him to break off with her if he knew what was good for him, saying that she
held no place in his future.
Knowing his friend was right, Yoshioka aban-
doned Mitsu but had been powerless to stop the ache and void in his heart or to forget the sting of a guilty conscience. But after meeting Mariko, Mitsu begins to fade from his mind.
Shimako (Chikako Natsumi), Mitsu's friend while they had been factory workers and now running a shady business, brings news of Mitsu to Yoshioka when they meet at a party. She tells him of his child that Mitsu could not have and of her pathetic life, existing and living only in the memories of their short but happy days together.
Yoshioka is worried, but his marriage to Mariko is only a few days away, so he puts Mitsu out of mind. After their marriage Shimako arranges for Yoshioka and Mitsu to meet again. She knows Yoshioka has married a rich girl and intends to blackmail them without Mitsu's knowledge.
When Mitsu learns what Shimako is up to, she tries to destroy the incriminating photos taken of them. In the scuffle that follows, she falls from the window and dies, sacrificing her own life to save the happiness of the man she loves.
【Quoted from the database of Nikkatsu Corporation】
【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1970.13.1】
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