Premise: Utamaro and His Five Women or Five Women Around Utamaro (Japanese: 歌麿をめぐる五人の女 , Hepburn: Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna ) is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It is based on the novel of the same title by Kanji Kunieda, itself a fictionalized account of the life of printmaker Kitagawa Utamaro. It was Mizoguchi's first film made under the American occupation.
Hypothesis: Kunieda  was a popular writer.