Wife
7.1
“Is this the way every woman, every wife, has to take?”
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
31 people
Mieko Takamine
Mihoko Nakagawa
Known for
The 47 Ronin
Ken Uehara
Toichi, Mihoko's husband
Known for
Repast
Mothra
Mikio Naruse
Also in
Mikio Naruse 100th Birth Anniversary
Sanezumi Fujimoto
Masao Tamai
Fumiko Hayashi
Rentaro Mikuni
Tadashi Tanimura
Known for
Kwaidan
The Burmese Harp
Ichirō Saitō
Toshiro Ide
Michiyo Aratama
Yoshimi Niemura
Known for
Kwaidan
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Satoru Chûko
Chieko Nakakita
Eiko Matsuyama
Known for
Drunken Angel
One Wonderful Sunday
Mikio Naruse Director · Toshiro Ide Screenplay Fumiko Hayashi Author
United States release January 28, 2006 · Produced in Japan · Original title 妻
Production
TOHO
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
妻
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · April 29, 1953
Theatrical
United States · January 28, 2006
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
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