Apartment Wife: Flesh Financing

1976 1h 11m JA

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8.0

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★8.0TMDB · 1

Synopsis

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A comedy about apartment wives who take advantage of a loan shark when their husbands can't earn enough money.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Yu Mizuki
Itoko Kôda
Jun Kosugi
Chiyo Miyazaki
Rei Okamoto
Masae Tateishi
Tatsuya Hamaguchi
Eguchi
Yasuhiko Ishizu
Kazuo Kôda
Hidetoshi Kageyama
Kenji Kotaka
Yūko Katagiri
Itoko's Friend
Ichiro Kijima
Yoshiyuki Tateishi

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Shōgorō Nishimura
Writers: Chiho Katsura
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Tight 71-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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50 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

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 Yoshihiro 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 Koichi Sakata. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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

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8 / 8

CAST

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Yu Mizuki and Jun Kosugi and Rei Okamoto carry the top of the cast.

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The take

Shōgorō Nishimura directs. Yoshihiro Yamazaki behind the camera. Koichi Sakata scores. Toyoharu Nishimura cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

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Things worth knowing

1Tight 71-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
250 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 Yoshihiro Yamazaki. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Koichi Sakata. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Toyoharu Nishimura shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Yu Mizuki and Jun Kosugi and Rei Okamoto carry the top of the cast.
9IMDB entry: tt0223097 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.