Film

The Most Valuable Wife

1959 · 1h 35m · Comedy · Drama

IMDb

6.7

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...

Ayako Wakao

Kyoko Nonomiya

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Saburo Mihara

Eiji Funakoshi

Ichiro Mihara

Seiji Miyaguchi

Rintaro Nonomiya

Chieko Higashiyama

Yatsuko Tan'ami

Momoko Mihara

Hisako Takihana

Sugiko Nonomiya

Atsuko Kindaichi

Fujiko Oshima

Hiromi Ichida

Mieko Kondō

Keiji Noguchi

Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Yoshirō Kitahara

Yuko Yashio

Mantarō Ushio

Shinichi Yanagisawa

• Yasuzō MasumuraDirector
• Yoshio ShirasakaScreenplay
• Keita GenjiNovel
• Kazuyoshi TakedaProducer
• Hiroshi MuraiDirector of Photography
• Setsuo TsukaharaOriginal Music Composer
• Tatsuji NakashizuEditor

Release date

February 11, 1959

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Comedy, Drama