context: Fumiko Hayashi (Hideko Takamine) is a young woman who cannot find a decent job and has been dumped by her boyfriend; she writes on the side. Fumikoâs friends tell her that her writing about her life in poverty is excellent and impressive, but no publishing company will buy her autobiographic novel. She continues working as a bar girl and a factory worker and gets together with another aspiring writer, Fukuchi (Akira Takarada), who has also been struggling to sell his work. Despite the fact that she does all she can for him and cares for him while he suffers from tuberculosis, he abuses her verbally and eventually physically. She walks out of him, returns, and then walks out again. Yasuoka (Daisuke KatÅ), a warm-hearted and hard-working man, helps Fumiko in every way possible and asks for her hand, but she rejects his proposalâto Fumiko, Yasuoka is more of a friend than a lover. After these struggles, the film ends with her literary success.
question: What illness does the man suffer with?
answer: Tuberculosis