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.
Unfortunately the movie Wife is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Mikio Naruse | Director |
Production | Sanezumi Fujimoto | Producer |
Camera | Masao Tamai | Director of Photography |
Editing | Eiji Ooi | Editor |
Art | Satoru Chûko | Production Design |
Production | Teruo Maki | Production Manager |
Directing | Masayoshi Kawanishi | Assistant Director |
Crew | Chôshichirô Mikami | Sound Recordist |
Lighting | Shigeru Mori | Gaffer |
Sound | Ichirō Saitō | Original Music Composer |
Writing | Toshirō Ide | Screenplay |
Writing | Fumiko Hayashi | Novel |