Muhomatsu no Issho

Author: Hiroshi Asuna

Run: 1969

Chapters: 3

Genres: Historical, Drama

``The Life of a Lawless Pine'' is a novel by Shunsaku Iwashita. Set in Kokura, Fukuoka Prefecture (present-day Kitakyushu City), the film depicts the interactions between Matsugoro Toshima (commonly known as Muhomatsu), a rough-and-tumble rickshaw driver, and the bereaved family (his widow, Yoshiko, and young son, Toshio) of Yoshioka, a captain in the Imperial Japanese Army who died of a sudden illness just after they became good friends.