Movielogr
Wife (1953)
Directed by Mikio Naruse
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.
Length 96 minutes
Actors
Mieko Takamine | Ken Uehara | Rentarô Mikuni | Michiyo Aratama | Chieko Nakakita | Sanae Takasugi | Yatsuko Tan'ami | Hajime Izu | Yoshiko Tsubouchi | Tatsuya Ishiguro | Akira Tani | Noriko Honma | Masao Shimizu | Sadako Kimura | Eiji Koyama | Masakichi Mitsui | Hideko Ebata | Tsuruko Mano | Toyomi Shiozawa | Minoru Chiaki | Takeshi Katô | Kamatari Fujiwara | Eijirô Tôno