Wife of a Spy

Name: Wife of a Spy
Genre: Drama
Released: September 17, 2021
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Chuck Johnson, Hyunri, Issei Takahashi, Masahiro Higashide, Minosuke

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: September 17, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Chuck Johnson, Hyunri, Issei Takahashi, Masahiro Higashide, Minosuke, Ryôta Bandô, Takashi Sasano, Yû Aoi, Yuri Tsunematsu

Summary: The year is 1940 in Kobe, the night before the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant, Yusaku Fukuhara, senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. He leaves his wife Satoko behind and travels to Manchuria. There, he coincidentally witnesses a barbarous act and is determined to bring it to light. He leaps into action.The year is 1940 in Kobe, the night before the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant, Yusaku Fukuhara, senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. He leaves his wife Satoko behind and travels to Manchuria. There, he coincidentally witnesses a barbarous act and is determined to bring it to light. He leaps into action. Meanwhile, Satoko is called on by her childhood friend and military policeman, Taiji Tsumori. He tells her that a woman her husband brought back from Manchuria has died. Satoko is torn by jealousy and confronts Yusaku. But when she discovers Yusaku’s true intentions, she does the unthinkable to ensure his safety and their happiness. [Venice]… Expand

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 115 min

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Liam Lacey

Oct 22, 2021

Wife of a Spy is in some ways an imperfect film, sometimes stiff at the joints or broadly obvious, but it’s also carefully crafted and conceptually inspired. Read full review

Deborah Young

Sep 14, 2020

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s intriguingly titled Wife of a Spy (Spy no Tsuma) bookends the Second World War in an absorbing, exotic, well-paced thriller with moments of disconcerting realism and horror. Read full review

Robert Daniels

Sep 23, 2021

The film’s conclusion leans too closely to the melodramatic. But Kurosawa’s assured direction is enough to make Wife of a Spy an enrapturing, stylish wartime period piece. Read full review

Robert Abele

Sep 17, 2021

Wife of a Spy doesn’t necessarily change its tone when the stakes are raised so much as shift its concerns from what’s on the surface to what courses underneath in a time of war. Read full review

Noel Murray

Sep 15, 2021

The movie is sometimes quiet and poky to a fault; a few cheap pulp thrills might’ve made it feel more vital from start to finish. But Kurosawa and co-screenwriter Ryusuke Hamaguchi do gradually build tension and intrigue across Wife Of A Spy’s two hours, while also openly confronting a dark chapter of Japanese history. Read full review

The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Sep 14, 2020

The protagonists of Wife of a Spy often act out of character, which all bodes efficiently well for the film’s slippery web of conceit, but ultimately quells a great deal of something the film is otherwise lacking in: feeling. It is, for my money, Kurosawa in low key; an interesting inclusion to a wonderfully idiosyncratic career. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Sep 11, 2021

Wife of a Spy could use a streak of live-wire, huckster crudeness, a bit of melodrama delivered in an unselfconscious manner. Read full review

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Jun 13, 2022

the director respects the history and all actors and actresses are at their levels, i love this movie!

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JLuis_001

Sep 17, 2021

In my opinion this story never manages to build a pulsating tension like I think it should have done because of its subject. However, Wife of a Spy turned out to be a better film than I expected.

The story deals with a Japanese couple before the start of World War II. The husband is aIn my opinion this story never manages to build a pulsating tension like I think it should have done because of its subject. However, Wife of a Spy turned out to be a better film than I expected.

The story deals with a Japanese couple before the start of World War II. The husband is a wealthy businessman who does not seem to agree very much with the authoritarian influence that is hanging over the country, while his wife lives unconcerned with her career as a non-professional actress.

After certain events, that erases the slowness of its beginning, it's when the title of the film takes context, although it's never established that the character is a spy, but the entertaining film in which this story becomes is more than enough to justify the time invested.

I reiterate that the tension is not as overwhelming as I would've preferred, because despite the risks, they never feel as terrifying as it should be to be persecuted by your country with the intention of being captured, tortured and executed for treason, but in all honesty I did enjoy this one.… Expand

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