Wife

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.

Director

Mikio Naruse

Music

Ichirō Saitō

Screenplay

Toshiro Ide

Novela

Fumiko Hayashi

Status

Released

Release date

29/04/1953

Original language

Japanese