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.

• Mikio NaruseDirector
• Ichirō SaitōOriginal Music Composer
• Toshiro IdeScreenplay

• Mieko TakamineMihoko Nakagawa
• Ken UeharaToichi, Mihoko's husband
• Rentaro MikuniTadashi Tanimura
• Michiyo AratamaYoshimi Niemura
• Chieko NakakitaEiko Matsuyama
• Sanae TakasugiSetsuko Sakurai
• Yatsuko Tan'amiFusako Sagara
• Hajime IzuHirohisa Matsuyama
• Yoshiko TsubouchiTaeko Niemura
• Tatsuya IshiguroCast
• Akira TaniKito
• Noriko HonmaCast