A Wife's Heart

Kiyoko lives in the same house as her husband Shinji and his mother. The couple run a small food shop there, and it does not do well. Their marriage is not happy; it rests more on an arrangement. Even so they agree on one thing: opening a coffee shop in the house. The mother is against it. Kiyoko goes to Kenkichi, the elder brother of a friend, who works at a bank and approves the loan. Then her husband’s elder brother comes back from Tokyo and the plan falls apart. Meanwhile Shinji begins to think there is something between his wife and Kenkichi. Hideko Takamine and Toshirō Mifune appear in Mikio Naruse’s Japanese film of 1956, ninety eight minutes long.