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Wife (1953)

★ 7.2/10 96 min Drama Japan Japanese
Director: Mikio Naruse
Screenplay by: Toshiro Ide
Novel: Fumiko Hayashi
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Is this the way every woman, every wife, has to take?

Description

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.

Top Cast

Mieko Takamine
Mieko Takamine Mihoko Nakagawa
Ken Uehara
Ken Uehara Toichi, Mihoko's husband
Rentaro Mikuni
Rentaro Mikuni Tadashi Tanimura
Michiyo Aratama
Michiyo Aratama Yoshimi Niemura
Chieko Nakakita
Chieko Nakakita Eiko Matsuyama
Sanae Takasugi
Sanae Takasugi Setsuko Sakurai
Yatsuko Tan'ami
Yatsuko Tan'ami Fusako Sagara
Hajime Izu
Hajime Izu Hirohisa Matsuyama

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