A Wife's Heart

Tokyo: Toho Company, Circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Copy belonging to an unknown cast or crew member, with their annotations in manuscript pencil throughout. Text and titles in Japanese.

A neglected wife begins an affair with a bank teller who offers to loan money for her husband to open a cafe. Actress Hideko Takamine would appear in many of director Mikio Naruse's films, usually embodying the plight of contemporary women in Japan, longing for emancipation.

Set in Japan.

White titled perfect-bound wrappers. 67 pages, with last page of text numbered e-26. Mimeograph duplication, printed on rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good, lightly foxed.

[Book #143200]