Slideshow
PREVIOUSLY PLAYED
A WIFE’S HEART
妻の心
Monday, February 14 at
12:40, 6:00
Japan, 1956
Directed by Mikio Naruse
Starring Toshirō Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Keiju Kobayashi
35mm print courtesy Japan Foundation. Approx. 101 min.
Mifune as romantic lead? Every time hard-working wife Hideko Takamine (Floating Clouds, When A Woman Ascends the Stairs) raises enough yen for that coffee shop, her family scarfs it; but visiting bank loan officer Toshirō, here sharply dressed, may have the answer. The intensity of the chemistry between the superstars becomes, without a word or a touch, almost palpable.