Behind every starving artist, there tends to be someone else who’s paying the bills. That was certainly true for filmmaker Shin Adachi, who spent years as an unsuccessful screenwriter before finally breaking out with “100 Yen Love” in 2014.
As he has revealed in two autobiographical novels and their respective screen adaptations, he wouldn’t have made it this far without the help of his spouse, Akiko. But in Adachi’s fictionalized retelling, his better half is a far cry from the “devoted wife” archetype beloved of NHK morning dramas.
In “I Still Want To Do It With My Wife,” Chika (played by the single-named Megumi) subjects her husband to a near-constant invective — and you can hardly blame her. Work-shy and out of work, Gota (Shunsuke Kazama) is a hopeless case. He didn’t even make ¥100,000 the previous year, yet when he does finally land a gig, he’s so out of his depth with the material that he has to get his missus to write it for him.
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