Apartment Wife: Rainy Day Affair

"Wet day. I remember "that"... The intoxication of the abyss that drives a married woman crazy!!"

1977 1h 9m JA

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4.3

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★4.3TMDB · 3

Romance

Synopsis

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On a rainy night, the lights in the windows of the apartment complex go out one by one. Chiaki Onda (Junko Miyashita) was waiting for her husband, Hajime (Akira Hanagami), who came home late tonight. Dinner is cold and the children are already asleep. A rift had already formed between Chiaki and Hajime, and sex was nothing more than a means of fulfilling Hajime's sexual desires, and there was no joy in it. An attraction to her classmate's driver awakens...

“Wet day. I remember "that"... The intoxication of the abyss that drives a married woman crazy!!”

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Cast

Junko Miyashita
Chiaki Onda
Yu Mizuki
Maki
Osamu Tsuruoka
Sagara
Tsutomu Hori
Jun
Akira Hanaue
Hajime Onda
Akira Takahashi
Factory Manager
Hirotaro Honda
Sonobe
Rei Hinatsu
Toshiko

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Shōgorō Nishimura
Writers: Keiji Kubota
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Tight 69-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 8

ERA

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49 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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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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4 / 8

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Shōgorō Nishimura, shot by Masaru Mori. 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 Shin Takada. 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 Yoshitomo Hotta 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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Junko Miyashita and Yu Mizuki and Osamu Tsuruoka carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Shōgorō Nishimura directs. Masaru Mori behind the camera. Shin Takada scores. Yoshitomo Hotta cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 69-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
249 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
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 Masaru Mori. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Shin Takada. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Yoshitomo Hotta shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Junko Miyashita and Yu Mizuki and Osamu Tsuruoka carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Wet day. I remember "that"... The intoxication of the abyss that drives a married woman crazy!!".
10IMDB entry: tt0223087 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Only 3 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.