Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.
Mieko Takamine
Ken Uehara
Rentaro Mikuni
Michiyo Aratama
Chieko Nakakita
Sanae Takasugi
Yatsuko Tan'ami
Hajime Izu
Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Tatsuya Ishiguro
Akira Tani
Noriko Honma
Masao Shimizu
Sadako Kimura
Eiji Koyama
Masakichi Mitsui
Hideko Ebata
Tsuruko Mano
Toyomi Shiozawa
Minoru Chiaki
Takeshi Katō
Kamatari Fujiwara
Eijirō Tōno