Apartment Wife: Secret Rendezvous

"Even though I told myself it was for your sake, I ended up giving myself over to it, and every night I discovered the joy of a married woman succumbing to a man's desire, and I hate this skin of mine!"

1972 1h 5m JA

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Synopsis

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Shuichi and Nobuko are an ordinary, young couple, a promising company employee and his pretty wife. They think nothing can mar their peaceful life but nothing is permanent in this world and Shuichi's company goes bankrupt. Shuichi feels lost. He misses the good times he had at bars and cabarets, especially Hiromi, a hostess. Nobuko offers to work while he hunts for a job and finds an opening at an advertising company. But as Nobuko makes the rounds of restaurants and cabarets, she finds she cannot get ads just by dint of hard work alone. All the shop owners and managers expect her to sleep with them for each big ad they buy. At first, Nobuko is shocked but, to eat, she must meet their demands.

“Even though I told myself it was for your sake, I ended up giving myself over to it, and every night I discovered the joy of a married woman succumbing to a man's desire, and I hate this skin of mine!”

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Cast

Kazuko Shirakawa
Nobuko Kosaka
Keiko Aikawa
Hiromi
Eriko Oka
Aki
Mitsuko Aoi
Kayo Mitsumura
Tatsuya Hamaguchi
Shuichi Kosaka
Chieko Harada
Tomoko Oba
Ryûji Ôizumi
Masayuki Oba
Haruhiko Asaka
Shoji Senuma

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Shōgorō Nishimura
Writers: Kazuo Nishida
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Tight 65-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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54 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Apartment Wife Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Shōgorō Nishimura, shot by Toshiro Yamazaki. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Naozumi Yamamoto. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Jun Nabeshima shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Kazuko Shirakawa and Keiko Aikawa and Eriko Oka carry the top of the cast.

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The take

Shōgorō Nishimura directs. Toshiro Yamazaki behind the camera. Naozumi Yamamoto scores. Jun Nabeshima cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

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Things worth knowing

1Tight 65-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
254 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Part of the "Apartment Wife Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Directed by Shōgorō Nishimura, shot by Toshiro Yamazaki. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Naozumi Yamamoto. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Jun Nabeshima shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Kazuko Shirakawa and Keiko Aikawa and Eriko Oka carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Even though I told myself it was for your sake, I ended up giving myself over to it, and every night I discovered the joy of a married woman succumbing to a man's desire, and I hate this skin of mine!".
10IMDB entry: tt0223102 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.