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.

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  Mikio Naruse
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  Masayoshi Kawanishi

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