Hungry Soul

Reiko is married to a man twenty three years older than she is. She is badly treated inside that marriage. She puts up with it for a long time. Her close friend Mayumi is a widow. The two of them confide in each other. One day Reiko meets her husband’s business rival. He is young and good at what he does. Something grows between them. Reiko cannot hide what she feels for him. That attachment makes her marriage harder still. Mayumi takes a step in her own life too. She begins a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband. The paths of the two women move in different directions. The film is about the choices open to them. Tatsuya Mihashi and Yōko Minamida appear in the seventy nine minute film, a Japanese production Yūzō Kawashima finished in 1956.