DVD release from the film "Villon's Wife (Villon no Tsuma - Oto to Tanpopo -)," the winner of the Best Director award at the 33rd Montreal World Film Festival. Directed by Kichitaro Negishi of "Saido ka ni inu."Stars Tadanobu Asano ("The 19th Step") and Takako Matsu ("K-20: Legend of the Mask.") The story based on a novel by one of the foremost novelists of 20th-century Japan, Osamu Dazai. The story is set in Tokyo, the dark years of the early postwar era. A talented novelist Oya (Tadanobu Asano) is a dissolute man who is mired in debt and cheats on his wife, Sachi (Takako Matsu). One day, he shirks the alcohol charges and steals money from a pub. To stop them from reporting the matter to the police, she promises to repay them by working there. Then. . .