The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

Name: The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
Genre: Drama
Rating: 86
Cast: Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Hideko Takamine, Yunosuke Ito, Misako Watanabe

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1967

1h 40m

Drama

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Doctor Hanaoka Seishu's wife and mother vie for his attention by volunteering as guinea pigs for his surgical trials.

Philippa Hawker

The Saturday Paper

Jul 16

The Wife of Seisaku is a film about marriage and society, about double standards and community expectations, but it is above all a deeply felt study of character and contradiction, desire and loss.

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Yasuzo Masumura

Director

Raizô Ichikawa

Umpei 'Seishu' Hanaoka

Ayako Wakao

Kae

Hideko Takamine

Otsugi

Yunosuke Ito

Seishu's father

Misako Watanabe

Koriku

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Doctor Hanaoka Seishu's wife and mother vie for his attention by volunteering as guinea pigs for his surgical trials.

Director: Yasuzo Masumura
Producer: Masaichi Nagata
Screenwriter: Kaneto Shindô
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Japanese
Runtime: 1h 40m

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