Wife (film)
Wife (Japanese: 妻, romanized: Tsuma) is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on Fumiko Hayashi's novel Chairo no me (1950).[2]
| Wife | |
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| Japanese | 妻 |
| Directed by | Mikio Naruse |
| Produced by | Sanezumi Fujimoto |
| Written by |
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| Starring | |
| Music by | Ichirō Saitō |
| Cinematography | Masao Tamai |
| Edited by | Eiji Ooi |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Toho |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes[1] |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Cast
- Ken Uehara as Toichi
- Mieko Takamine as Mihoko
- Yatsuko Tan'ami as Fusako
- Sanae Takasugi as Setsuko
- Rentarō Mikuni as Tadashi
- Michiyo Aratama as Yoshimi
- Chieko Nakakita as Eiko
Production
Wife was part of a series of six films by Naruse based on works by writer Hayashi, made between 1951 and 1955. Like the Hayashi adaptations Repast and Husband and Wife, the theme of Wife involved a couple trapped with each other[3] and, like in Lightning, an unhappy family.[4]
References
- "Wife at the Japanese Movie Database" (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- Goble, Alan, ed. (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 212. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
- Richie, Donald (2012). A Hundred Years of Japanese Film. Kodansha. p. 126. ISBN 9781568364391.
- Jacoby, Alexander (2008). A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors. Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 9781933330532.
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