| A Wife's Heart | |
|---|---|
| [[Image:A Wife's Heart (1956) Japanese Poster.jpg|200px|]] The Original Japanese Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Mikio Naruse |
| Produced by | Masumi Fujimoto
Masato Kaneko |
| Written by | Toshiro Ide
Hidefumi Oi Koji Kajita |
| Music by | Ichiro Saito |
| Running time | 101 minutes (Japan) |
| Budget | ??? |
A Wife's Heart (also known as A Wife of the heart) is a 1956 toho drama film,Directed by Mikio Naruse.
Plot[]
Kiyoko (Hideko Takamine) and her bank clerk bachelor confidant Kenkichi (Toshiro Mifune). Kiyoko, along with her husband Shinji (Keiju Kobayashi), wants to open a coffee shop and so goes to Kenkichi to ask for a loan. Family financial and emotion troubles mount within her household, and Kiyoko falls for the handsome Kenkichi. Their entire relationship is a series of beginnings and endings with the middles cut out. It is at first purely a business association, though after Shinji (at the manipulative behest of his matchmaker mother) gives a majority of the loan to his deadbeat brother Zenichi, Kiyoko starts to think that her feelings for Kenkichi may be more than platonic.
Neither nakedly confess their heart's desire, as the closest they come is during a sequence, set against the backdrop of a torrential downpour, where Kenkichi utters the first few words of a thought that he will never finish. It allows the rainstorm to act as an expressive emotional outlet—nature thus concludes what Kenkichi cannot.
Cast[]
- Ko Tomita: Eiko Miyoshi
- Zenichi Tomita (the eldest son of this): Minoru Chiaki
- Kaho Tomita (oldest son's wife): Chieko Nakakita
- Rumiko Tomita (oldest son): Natsuko Matsuyama
- Shinji Tomita (second son of this): Keiki Kobayashi
- Kiyoko Tomita (second son's wife): Hideko Takamine
- Sumiko Tomita (the eldest daughter): Akemi Negishi
- Kunio (Master of Akagiya): Haruo Tanaka
- Sadako (Kunio's wife): Ranko Hanai
- Yumiko Takemura: Yoko Sugi
- Kenkichi Takemura (Yumiko's older brother): Toshiro Mifune
- "Haruna" Master: Daisuke Kato
- Namiko (My husband's wife): Sadako Sawamura
- Fukuko (Geisha): Machiko Kitagawa
- Sparrow (geisha): Yasuko Kitano
- Kobana (Geisha): Noboru Shiozawa
- Seed (Kiyoko's aunt): Fumiko Honma
- Shotaro (Tane's son): Yoshio Tsuchiya
- Yoshiko (Tane's daughter): Tomoko Kawamichi
- Watanabe: Taro Sakurai
- Yasuda: Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
- Tamura: Seraaki
- Sayama: Fumito Matsuo
- Architect: Yutaka Sada
Staff[]
- Director: Mikio Naruse
- Production: Masumi Fujimoto , Masato Kaneko
- Script: Toshiro Ide
- Music: Ichiro Saito
- Photo: Masao Tamai
- Art: used wisdom
- Recording: Masao Fujiyoshi
- Lighting: Choshiro Ishii
- Edit: Hidefumi Oi
- Chief Assistant Director: Koji Kajita
Titles[]
- A Wife's Heart (Original Worldwide release title)
- Wife's heart (Japanese title)
- Wife of the heart (Original Japanese title)
Gallery[]
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a poster for the film.