Husband and Wife

Kikuko and Isaku are a married couple. They are looking for somewhere to live. Finding an affordable flat in the city is not easy. In the end a solution appears. They move into the house of Isaku’s colleague. The man’s wife has recently died. The house turns into a household of three. At first everything seems to go well. Then Isaku starts to get uneasy. The closeness between his wife and their host bothers him. Jealousy settles into the house. The old cracks in the marriage open up too. Without a home of their own the bond never quite firms up. Naruse tells all of it without raising his voice. Ken Uehara and Yōko Sugi appear in the eighty seven minute film, a Japanese production Mikio Naruse finished in 1953.