The Most Valuable Wife (1959)
Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...
Director:
Yasuzō Masumura
Writer:
Yoshio Shirasaka
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Ayako Wakao as Kyoko Nonomiya |
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Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Saburo Mihara |
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Eiji Funakoshi as Ichiro Mihara |
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Seiji Miyaguchi as Rintaro Nonomiya |
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Chieko Higashiyama as |
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Yatsuko Tan'ami as Momoko Mihara |
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Hisako Takihana as Sugiko Nonomiya |
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Atsuko Kindaichi as Fujiko Oshima |
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Hiromi Ichida as |
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Mieko Kondō as |
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Keiji Noguchi as |
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Katsuhiko Kobayashi as |
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Yoshirō Kitahara as |
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Yuko Yashio as |
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Mantarō Ushio as |
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Shinichi Yanagisawa as |
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Reiko Mizuki as |
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Kazuko Miyagawa as |
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Mariko Ogasawara as |
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Hachiro Misumi as |
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Tetsuya Watanabe as |
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Eiichi Takamura as |
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Ken Yamaguchi as |
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Rin Sugimori as |
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Shō Natsuki as |
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Kisao Tobita as |
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Shuichi Minato as |
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Jun Osanai as |
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Fujio Yonezawa as |
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Shōzaburō Date as |
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Munehiko Takada as |
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Jun Fujimaki as |
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Nobuhiko Inoue as |
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Hajime Mitamura as |
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Yūji Moriya as |
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Osamu Ōkawa as |
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Aiko Mishima as |
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Mitsuko Tanaka as |
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Mitsuko Han'ya as |
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Wakayo Matsumura as |
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Noriko Kubota as |
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Reiko Hibiki as |
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Isamu Nakane as |
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Yoshihiko Kanazawa as |
| Production | Kazuyoshi Takeda | Producer |
| Sound | Toshikazu Watanabe | Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Isamu Yoneyama | Lighting Technician |
| Art | Tomoo Shimogawara | Art Direction |
| Sound | Setsuo Tsukahara | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Tatsuji Nakashizu | Editor |
| Directing | Yasuzō Masumura | Director |
| Writing | Keita Genji | Novel |
| Camera | Hiroshi Murai | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Yoshio Shirasaka | Screenplay |