
Wife
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.
Top Billed Cast

Mieko Takamine
Mihoko Nakagawa

Ken Uehara
Toichi, Mihoko's husband

Rentaro Mikuni
Tadashi Tanimura

Michiyo Aratama
Yoshimi Niemura

Chieko Nakakita
Eiko Matsuyama
Featured Crew

Mikio Naruse
Director
Masao Tamai
Director of Photography
Sanezumi Fujimoto
Producer
Teruo Maki
Production Manager
Shigeru Mori
Gaffer
Eiji Ooi
Editor
Satoru Chûko
Production Design
Masayoshi Kawanishi
Assistant Director
Chôshichirô Mikami
Sound Recordist
Ichirō Saitō
Original Music Composer

Toshirō Ide
Screenplay

Fumiko Hayashi
Novel