Wife (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.
Director:
Mikio Naruse
Writer:
Toshiro Ide
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Mieko Takamine as Mihoko Nakagawa |
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Ken Uehara as Toichi, Mihoko's husband |
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Rentaro Mikuni as Tadashi Tanimura |
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Michiyo Aratama as Yoshimi Niemura |
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Chieko Nakakita as Eiko Matsuyama |
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Sanae Takasugi as Setsuko Sakurai |
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Yatsuko Tan'ami as Fusako Sagara |
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Hajime Izu as Hirohisa Matsuyama |
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Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Taeko Niemura |
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Tatsuya Ishiguro as |
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Akira Tani as Kito |
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Noriko Honma as |
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Masao Shimizu as |
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Sadako Kimura as |
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Eiji Koyama as |
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Masakichi Mitsui as |
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Hideko Ebata as |
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Tsuruko Mano as |
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Toyomi Shiozawa as |
| Directing | Mikio Naruse | Director |
| Camera | Masao Tamai | Director of Photography |
| Production | Sanezumi Fujimoto | Producer |
| Production | Teruo Maki | Production Manager |
| Lighting | Shigeru Mori | Gaffer |
| Editing | Eiji Ooi | Editor |
| Art | Satoru Chūko | Production Design |
| Directing | Masayoshi Kawanishi | Assistant Director |
| Crew | Chôshichirô Mikami | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Ichirō Saitō | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Toshiro Ide | Screenplay |
| Writing | Fumiko Hayashi | Novel |
