Wife

Wife (1953)

妻

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

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.

Date of release
1953-04-29
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama
Director
Mikio Naruse

Casting

Interesting facts

Wife is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on Fumiko Hayashi's novel Chairo no me (1950).

Background

Wife was the third in a series of six films by Naruse based on works by writer Hayashi, made between 1951 and 1962. Like Repast, the theme of Wife involved a couple trapped with each other. Because Naruse's regular star Hideko Takamine had turned down the role of Mineko, Mieko Takamine took over the part.

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