Wife (1953)

  • NR
  • 04/29/1953 (JP)
  • Drama
  • 1h 36m

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.

Mikio Naruse

Director

Toshirō Ide

Screenplay

Fumiko Hayashi

Novel

Cast

Mieko Takamine's headshot

Mieko Takamine

Mihoko Nakagawa
Ken Uehara's headshot

Ken Uehara

Toichi, Mihoko's husband
Rentaro Mikuni's headshot

Rentaro Mikuni

Tadashi Tanimura
Michiyo Aratama's headshot

Michiyo Aratama

Yoshimi Niemura
Chieko Nakakita's headshot

Chieko Nakakita

Eiko Matsuyama
Sanae Takasugi's headshot

Sanae Takasugi

Setsuko Sakurai
Yatsuko Tan'ami's headshot

Yatsuko Tan'ami

Fusako Sagara
Hajime Izu's headshot

Hajime Izu

Hirohisa Matsuyama

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