The Eternal Breasts (Chibusa yo eien nare), Kinuyo Tanaka, Japan, 1955, 110'

The Eternal Breasts (Chibusa yo eien nare), Kinuyo Tanaka, Japan, 1955, 110'

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and the development of a serious illness: a breast cancer, which leads her to lose her breasts. In the last stage of her life she meets a young journalist arrived from Tokyo, an admirer of her work, who want to write a story on her life. Both live a secret love history.