A Wife's Heart

A Wife's Heart
A Wife's Heart
	Original Japanese movie poster
Japanese	妻の心
Directed by	Mikio Naruse
Written by	Toshirō Ide
Produced by	Sanezumi Fujimoto; Masakatsu Kaneko;
Starring	Hideko Takamine; Toshiro Mifune; Yoko Sugi;
Cinematography	Masao Tamai
Edited by	Eiji Ooi
Music by	Ichirō Saitō
Production; company	Toho
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	3 May 1956 (Japan);
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

A Wife's Heart (妻の心, Tsuma no kokoro) is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse.^[3]

Plot[]

Kiyoko lives with her husband Shinji and Shinji's mother in the family's house, where the married couple runs a not-too-successful food store. Although their marriage is not happy, it is pragmatic, and both agree on the plan to open an additional coffee shop in the house, despite the mother's objections. Kiyoko asks her friend Sumiko's brother Kenkichi, a bank clerk, for a loan, which he approves. Shortly after, Shinji's older brother Zenichi loses his job. Together with his wife and mother, Zenichi puts pressure on Kiyoko and Shinji to give the money to him to start his own business. Although both Kiyoko and Shinji are against Zenichi's plan, they slowly retreat. Kiyoki feels humiliated when she is told that Shinji visited a hot spring with a friend and two geisha. At the same time, she and Kenkichi develop a mutual affection, which they never openly acknowledge. When Shinji learns that Kiyoko was seen with Kenkichi in public, he offers to let her go, but Kiyoko eventually stays with her husband, affirming that they should carry on with their project to open a café.

Cast[]


Actor	Role
Hideko Takamine	Kiyoko
Keiju Kobayashi	Shinji
Toshiro Mifune	Kenkichi
Yoko Sugi	Yumiko, Kenkichi's sister
Eiko Miyoshi	Shinji's mother
Minoru Chiaki	Zenichi, Shinji's brother
Chieko Nakakita	Kaoru, Zenichi's wife
Akemi Negishi	Sumiko, Shinji's sister
Haruo Tanaka	Kunio
Ranko Hanaias	Kunio's wife and madame
Machiko Kitagawa	geisha
Toki Shiozawa	geisha
Sadako Sawamura	Namiko
Daisuke Katō	chef
Yoshio Tsuchiya

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "妻の心 (A Wife's Heart)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 January 2021.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "妻の心 (A Wife's Heart)". Kinema Junpo] (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 January 2021.
^ Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6004-9.

External links[]

A Wife's Heart at IMDb
A Wife's Heart at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

[jmdb-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "妻の心 (A Wife's Heart)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 January 2021.

[kinemajunpo-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "妻の心 (A Wife's Heart)". Kinema Junpo] (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 January 2021.

[galbraith-3] Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6004-9.

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