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
Japanese	妻
Directed by	Mikio Naruse
Written by	Toshirō Ide Fumiko Hayashi (novel)
Produced by	Sanezumi Fujimoto
Starring	Ken Uehara Mieko Takamine
Cinematography	Masao Tamai
Edited by	Eiji Ooi
Music by	Ichirō Saitō
Production company	Toho
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	29 April 1953 (1953-04-29) [1]
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 1962. Like Repast, the theme of Wife involved a couple trapped with each other[3] and, like in Lightning, an unhappy family.[4]

References

External links

• Wife at IMDb
• Wife at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

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