Wife

Is this the way every woman, every wife, has to take?

Wife — Plot

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.

• Release date
• April 29, 1953
• Runtime
• 96 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Mikio Naruse

Wife — Cast

Mieko Takamine Mihoko Nakagawa Ken Uehara Toichi, Mihoko's husband Rentaro Mikuni Tadashi Tanimura Michiyo Aratama Yoshimi Niemura Chieko Nakakita Eiko Matsuyama Sanae Takasugi Setsuko Sakurai Yatsuko Tan'ami Fusako Sagara Hajime Izu Hirohisa Matsuyama