Yū Aoi
Satoko Fukuhara
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Sep 17, 2021 · A finely calibrated WWII-era thriller, Wife of a Spy delicately balances the weight of national loyalty against our moral obligations to our fellow human beings. The year is 1940 in Kobe,...
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Sep 17, 2021 · Simon Abrams September 17, 2021. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. There’s a great—or maybe just better—drama somewhere in the pre-WWII Japanese period drama “Wife of a Spy,” a low-simmering psychological thriller about Satoko Fukahara ( Yu Aoi) and her mysterious husband Yusaku ( Issey Takahashi ).
Sep 6, 2021 · Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s old-fashioned drama delivers big performances and intriguing plot twists. Peter Bradshaw. Mon 6 Sep 2021 11.00 EDT. K iyoshi Kurosawa has probably long since got used to seeing...
Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller follows a Japanese woman during WWII who begins to suspect her husband’s Western connections may be hiding something more sinister. Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2017. 57 IMDb 6.6 1 h 56 min 2020. PG-13.
Sep 16, 2021 · 1h 55m. Find Tickets. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. There are a lot of commonplace story elements in “Wife...
Kobe, 1940. Satoko's comfortable life crumbles when her idealistic husband returns from Manchuria determined to expose what he witnessed to the world. Watch trailers & learn more.
Ryūsuke Hamaguchi. Writer. Tadashi Nohara. Writer. It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect he’s up to something. Soon she allows herself to be drawn into a game in which she enigmatically conceals her intentions.
