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Shortly after however, Matsuko is arrested for Onodera's murder, and she is sentenced to eight years in prison. After her release, she tries to go back to Keji, only to discover that he has since gotten married and already has a son.
May 27, 2006 · When Matsuko is murdered, her nephew, Sho, gets to progressively unveil the many details of her mysterious past, discovering she wasn't just a forgotten outcast and had led an intriguing yet bizarre life.
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- Comedy, Drama, Musical
- Tetsuya Nakashima
- 2006-05-27
Jan 23, 2019 · This all seems like the setup to a murder mystery. But when the investigator tells Sho that Matsuko used to be a junior high school teacher, the movie goes into an extended flashback to 30 years ago. Matsuko is 23-years-old and conducting a girl’s chorus in the school and in a boat on the river.
Oct 12, 2008 · However, unlike a Berkeley musical, which usually has a superficial plot with a dash or two of light romance, Memories of Matsuko tells the tragic life story of a woman who has been brutally murdered in a field near her squalid apartment.
Matsuko always ends up with the wrong guys, gets maltreated, beaten and dumped, eventually. Still, Matsuko is happy with the men she gets, because there is nothing that she fears more than being alone.
Jan 9, 2009 · Matsuko is unfairly sacked from her job as teacher, shacks up with a series of abusive lovers, ends up a massage parlour girl, completes an eight-year stint in prison for murder and descends into lonely madness, before her untimely end as a murder victim, at the age of 53.
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The film opens with Shô (the endearing Eita) finding out that an aunt he never knew he had, Matsuko (Miki Nakatani), has been murdered. He starts cleaning Matsuko’s apartment, and trying to piece together who may have killed her.
