Wife (1953)

7.2/10 96 min Drama

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.

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

Yoshiko Tsubouchi

Taeko Niemura

Tatsuya Ishiguro

Noriko Honma

Masao Shimizu

Tsuruko Mano

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