Nyonin aishû

Name: Nyonin aishû
Genre: Drama
Released: 1937-01-21
Duration: 1 h 14 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Takako Irie, Hideo Saeki, Heihachirô Ôkawa

19371937
1h 14m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

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Takako Irie, Kaoru Itô, Hyô Kitazawa, Tamae Kiyokawa, Kô Mihashi, Reiko Minakami, Mikio Naruse, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Hideo Saeki, Ranko Sawa, Chizuko Kanda, Masako Tsutsumi, and Ryoko Hase in Nyonin aishû (1937)

Drama

The irresolute heroine marries without love and finds herself regarded as an extra worker in her mother-in-law's house. She has to re-appraise own life.The irresolute heroine marries without love and finds herself regarded as an extra worker in her mother-in-law's house. She has to re-appraise own life.The irresolute heroine marries without love and finds herself regarded as an extra worker in her mother-in-law's house. She has to re-appraise own life.

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

116

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

240,031

227,014

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7/10

Forerunner for the Later Masterpiece Meshi

The film title Nyonin Aishu means the sadness of women and this summarizes this story of a "conservative and indecisive" Japanese woman (played by Irie Takako) who marries for security rather than to the man she loves.

This is of the same theme of Naruse's later masterpiece Meshi. Both films are about estranged housewives with the former more conventional and the latter (Mrs Okamoto) more subtle, more suitable for a changed Japanese society after the second world war. Hara Setsuko is also more powerful actress than Irie Takako though both serves well as two dutiful wives in a pre and post Word War II traditional Japanese family that win much of our pity. Ken Uehara also played a more realistic husband that could win some of our men's sympathy, if we men deserve any.

Together they serves a nice couplet of Naruse in his portrayal of sadness of modern married women.

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