Forever a Woman

Fumiko Shimojô (Yumeji Tsukioka) is raising two children with a husband who keeps other women, and she writes tanka poetry in whatever hours the household leaves her. Kinuyo Tanaka, directing her second film, follows the years in which her first success arrives alongside a divorce and a breast cancer diagnosis. A young journalist from Tokyo comes to write about her, and she has very little time left to say what she means to leave behind.