Wife
Is this the way every woman, every wife, has to take?
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.
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Mieko Takamine
Mihoko Nakagawa
Ken Uehara
Toichi, Mihoko's husband
Rentaro Mikuni
Tadashi Tanimura
Michiyo Aratama
Yoshimi Niemura
Chieko Nakakita
Eiko Matsuyama
Sanae Takasugi
Setsuko Sakurai
Yatsuko Tan'ami
Fusako Sagara
Hajime Izu
Hirohisa Matsuyama
Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Taeko Niemura
Tatsuya Ishiguro
Akira Tani
Kito
Noriko Honma
Masao Shimizu
Sadako Kimura
Eiji Koyama
Masakichi Mitsui
Hideko Ebata
Tsuruko Mano
Toyomi Shiozawa
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