A Wife Confesses

Name: A Wife Confesses
Director: Yasuzō Masumura
Released: 1961
Cast: Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Eitaro Ozawa, Haruko Mabuchi, Jun Negami

Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru

by Yasuzō Masumura1h321961Japan

Recommended byPark Chan-wook

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Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband's approval, and this complicates the trial.

Cast and crew

Credits
- Production Compagny : Daiei Studios
- Distributor : Kadokawa
- Original Music : Riichirô Manabe
- Scenario : Masato Ide
- Director : Yasuzō Masumura
- Photo Director : Setsuo Kobayashi
- Editing : Tatsuji Nakashizu
- Original Work Author : Masaya Maruyama
- Set Decoration : Takesaburo Watanabe
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Year of production : 1961
- French release date : 12 juillet 1961
- Category :
- Color : Black and White
- Language : Japanese

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This film is recommended by
- Chan-wook Park
This film is part of the Cinematographic movement
"L’âge d’or des studios japonais"
See the other films of the movement

A Wife Confesses

The film"s page

Credits

Technical details

Other films

By the same director

Red Angel

Seisaku's Wife

Sex Check: The Second Sex

From the same year

Critique of separation

Cleo from 5 to 7

The End of Summer

With the same cast

Ayako Wakao

Floating Weeds

Street of Shame

Red Angel

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Floating Weeds

Eitaro Ozawa

The Crucified Lovers

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

The Human Condition - Part 1: No Greater Love

Jun Negami

Warm Current

This film is recommended by

Chan-wook Park

This film is part of the Cinematographic movement

"L’âge d’or des studios japonais"