Japan Release: 1953
Running Time: 89 minutes

A Wife

 妻
[Tsuma]

Juichi and Mineko Nakagawa have been married ten years, but all the passion has run out of their matrimony. Juichi has no love for his wife, and Mineko has grown tired of both running their home and managing their boarding house. Their relationship is challenged tenfold when Juichi befriends and enters into an affair with a friendly office worker named Fusako Sagara.

Live Action

Titles

A Wife

Wife
US Distributor: Criterion (2012) / Time: 89 minutes

Wife
[Literal translation]

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Background and Trivia

• Based on Fumiko Hayashi's 1950 novel Brown Eyes (茶色の目 - Chairo no Me).
• Toho submitted the film to the US copyright office on December 12th, 1997 with the registration number of PA0000881186. The movie was submitted under its Romaji title, Tsuma, and its international title, A Wife. The copyright registration was a dual claim, as Toho submitted Ishiro Honda's The Eagle of the Pacific (1953) on the same claim.

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