Wife (1953)
1953 · Feature film · 96 min · dir. Mikio Naruse
Is this the way every woman, every wife, has to take?
- Drama
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Mikio Naruse
- Writer
- Toshiro Ide
- Composer
- Ichirō Saitō
- Cinematography
- Masao Tamai
- Studio
- TOHO
- Released
- 1953-04-29
- Original title
- 妻
- Running time
- 96 minutes
- Language
- Japanese
- Collection
- Feature Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Mikio Naruse
- postwar Japan
- English-subtitles
Cast & crew
Mikio Naruse Director
Mieko Takamine
Ken Uehara
Rentaro Mikuni
Michiyo Aratama
Chieko Nakakita
Sanae Takasugi
Yatsuko Tan'ami
Hajime Izu
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Wife (Tsuma), by dir. Mikio Naruse · eve shebang · 2023-03-07
Mikio Naruse may be little known beyond the growing circle of Japanophile movie lovers, though he is cited as the sort of fourth musketeer, 'after' Kurosawa, Ozu and Mizoguchi. I love all those three, but I place Naruse MIkio at his rightful 'ichiban' position, #1 if we have to rate them. Yet, it's rather difficult to talk about a Naruse movie and script and story, because it seems that he’s adept at depicting banality, everyday-life passing by as references to time are often made in Naruse’s movies. but because of this extremely elegant and sophisiticated way of filming an apparently banal…