A Dedicated Life

A Dedicated Life
Kanji全身小説家
Revised HepburnZenshin shōsetsuka
Directed byKazuo Hara
Produced bySachiko Kobayashi
CinematographyKazuo Hara
Edited byJun Nabeshima
Music byTakashi Sekiguchi
Production
company
Sprint Production (Kazuo Hara)
Distributed by
  • Sprint Production
  • Euro Space
Release date
  • 23 September 1994 (1994-09-23) (Japan)
[1][2]
Running time
157 minutes[a]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

A Dedicated Life (全身小説家, Zenshin shōsetsuka, lit. "A wholehearted writer") is a 1994 Japanese documentary and docudrama film directed by Kazuo Hara about writer Mitsuharu Inoue.[4] It shows the last four years of Inoue's life while fighting cancer, and tries to capture his character and the influence he had on the people around him.

  1. ^ "全身小説家 (Zenshin shōsetsuka)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  2. ^ "全身小説家 (Zenshin shōsetsuka)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  3. ^ "Zenshin Shousetsuka". CDJapan. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  4. ^ "全身小説家 (Zenshin shōsetsuka)". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 September 2021.


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