Wife
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- Runtime
- 96 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Mieko Takamine
- Ken Uehara
- Rentaro Mikuni
- Michiyo Aratama
- Chieko Nakakita
- Sanae Takasugi
- Yatsuko Tan'ami
- Hajime Izu
- Yoshiko Tsubouchi
- Tatsuya Ishiguro
- Akira Tani
- Noriko Honma
- Masao Shimizu
- Sadako Kimura
- Eiji Koyama
- Masakichi Mitsui
- Hideko Ebata
- Tsuruko Mano
- Toyomi Shiozawa
- Minoru Chiaki
- Takeshi Katō
- Kamatari Fujiwara
- Eijirō Tōno
Director
- Mikio Naruse
Producers
- Sanezumi Fujimoto
Screenwriter
- Toshirō Ide