Wife

Name: Wife
Director: Mikio Naruse
Genre: Drama
Released: 1953-04-29
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Chieko Nakakita

Directed by Mikio Naruse

Drama

19531h 36m6.9

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.