Wife

Wife

96 mins | Drama | April 29, 1953

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.

Wife

96 mins | Drama | April 29, 1953

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.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Toho Company, Ltd.
Original title 妻
Directors Masayoshi Kawanishi, Mikio Naruse
Writers Fumiko Hayashi, Toshirō Ide

Cast

Mieko Takamine

as Mihoko Nakagawa

Ken Uehara

as Toichi, Mihoko's husband

Rentaro Mikuni

as Tadashi Tanimura

Michiyo Aratama

as Yoshimi Niemura

Chieko Nakakita

as Eiko Matsuyama

Sanae Takasugi

as Setsuko Sakurai

Yatsuko Tan'ami

as Fusako Sagara

Hajime Izu

as Hirohisa Matsuyama

Yoshiko Tsubouchi

as Taeko Niemura

Akira Tani

as Kito