
Film
Wife
1953 · 1h 36m · Drama
Is this the way every woman, every wife, has to take?
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Overview
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.
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Cast

Mieko Takamine
Mihoko Nakagawa

Ken Uehara
Toichi, Mihoko's husband

Rentaro Mikuni
Tadashi Tanimura

Michiyo Aratama
Yoshimi Niemura

Chieko Nakakita
Eiko Matsuyama

Sanae Takasugi
Setsuko Sakurai

Yatsuko Tan'ami
Fusako Sagara

Hajime Izu
Hirohisa Matsuyama

Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Taeko Niemura

Tatsuya Ishiguro
Akira Tani
Kito

Noriko Honma

Masao Shimizu
Sadako Kimura
Eiji Koyama
Masakichi Mitsui
Crew
- Mikio NaruseDirector
- Toshiro IdeScreenplay
- Fumiko HayashiNovel
- Sanezumi FujimotoProducer
- Masao TamaiDirector of Photography
- Ichirō SaitōOriginal Music Composer
- Eiji OoiEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- April 29, 1953
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama
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