Husband and wife

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Husband and Wife (also known as Fūfu) is a 1953 toho drama film,Directed by Mikio Naruse.

## Plot

The Hayakawa Naokichi family has opened an eel kabayaki and tsukudani restaurant called "Hayakawa" in Shinkaichi, a suburb of Tokyo. Kikuko, the eldest daughter, married Isaku Nakahara, a salaryman of a local electric company, and Shigekichi, the eldest son, and Kumiko, the second daughter, helped the store. Shigekichi was to get married recently. Mr. and Mrs. Kikuko were transferred to Tokyo and came to Tokyo. After struggling to find a rental room, I was asked to live with Ryota Takemura, a colleague of Isaku who lost his wife. Kikuko, who has been married for six years and has no children, was sometimes dissatisfied with the good people who were about to lose their courage. On the other hand, Isaku sometimes felt a faint jealousy at the appearance of his wife, who diligently took care of the food and surroundings of Takemura who lost his wife. Because of that, the cold gap between the two was only deepening, but in the meantime, Shigekichi got married, and with the care of his new wife Namiko, he borrowed a new second floor and Isaku and Kikuko became a two-person life after a long absence. Entered. However, Kikuko was unexpectedly pregnant. Life was not easy, and I had to have no children to borrow. Kikuko and Isaku, who went to the doctor for an abortion, tried to chase after her because of her husband's blame, but Kikuko couldn't give up on her child and came back. For the first time, Isaku and Kikuko felt the unprecedented affection oozing out from each other.

## Cast

* Isaku Nakahara: Ken Uehara
* Kikuko Nakahara: Yoko Sugi
* Ryota Takemura: Rentaro Mikuni
* Shigekichi Hayakawa: Keiju Kobayashi
* Naokichi Hayakawa: Kamatari Fujiwara
* Taka Hayakawa: Hisako Takihana
* Kumiko Hayakawa: Mariko Okada
* Namiko Mishima: Michiko Toyoshima
* Mieko Fujino: Mayuri Mokusho[1]
* Aya Noda: Yuriko Tashiro
* Tori Ogata: Eiko Miyoshi
* Fusako Yokoyama: Rikie Sanjo
* Mrs. Akamatsu: Chieko Nakakita
* Mishima: Yonosuke Toba
* Kikuko's uncle: Zeko Nakamura
* Kikuko's Aunt: Noriko Honma
* Chief: Shin Tatsuoka
* Deaf old man: Kokuten Kodo
* Morio Sato: Daisuke Inoue
* Togoro Sato: Akira Tani
* Toyo Sato: Yaeko Izumo
* Kaichi Takami
* Kumagai Jiro
* Akio Kusama
* Shoichi Hirose
* Toshiko Nakano
* Teruko Mita
* Tsuruko Mano
* Mitsue Tachibana
* Yoshiko Hirose

## Staff

* Production: Sanezumi Fujimoto
* Screenplay: Toshiro Ide , Yoko Mizuki
* Music: Ichiro Saito
* Photo: Asakazu Nakai
* Art: Takashi Matsuyama
* Recording: Hisashi Shimonaga
* Lighting: Choshiro Ishii
* Edited by: Hidetoshi Kasama
* Chief Assistant Director: Masayoshi Kawanishi
* Producer: Park Morimoto
* Development: Toho Development Laboratory
* Director: Mikio Naruse

## Titles

* Husband and Wife (Original Japanese title)
* Couple (Japanese: 夫婦 Original Japanese release title)

## Overview

It was produced by Sanezumi Fujimoto of "Oka wa Hanazakari (1952)", and the script was also co-written by Yoko Mizuki and Toshiro Ide. Directed by Mikio Naruse of "Lightning Bolt (1952)" and photographed by Asakazu Nakai of "Oka wa Hanazakari (1952)". The main casts are Ken Uehara and Yoko Sugi from "Oka wa Hanazakari (1952)", Keiju Kobayashi from "The Man Who Came to the Port", Rentaro Mikuni and Mariko Okada from "Spring Whisper", and "The Man Who Came to the Port". For example, Fujiwara Kamatari.

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### Posters

the original japanese release posterthe original japanese re-release poster