Michi (film)

Summary

Michi , also known as The Road, Des gens sans importance and Hopeless Love, is a 1986 Japanese tragic romantic drama film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and written by Hirô Matsuda. It is a remake of the 1956 French film Des gens sans importance directed by Henri Verneuil, itself based on a novel of the same name by Serge Groussard. Its plot concerns a married long-distance truck driver who falls for a significantly younger waitress at a diner, and the trouble this affair brings to both their lives.