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Wife (1953)

Wife (1953)

Drama

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

Release Date: 1953, April 29
Directors: Mikio Naruse
Countries: Japan
Production: TOHO
Cast: Akira Tani, Rentaro Mikuni, Yatsuko Tan'ami, Michiyo Aratama, Hajime Izu, Ken Uehara, Yoshiko Tsubouchi, Chieko Nakakita, Mieko Takamine, Sanae Takasugi

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book wife marriage unhappiness