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)
Running time
157 minutes
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. 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.