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Wife

Wife

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 29, 1953

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Drama

User Score

69%

Original Title

Production Companies

TOHO

Director

Mikio Naruse

Description

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.