A lowly divorcee is tricked into becoming the mistress of a despised moneylender but soon falls in love with a student.A lowly divorcee is tricked into becoming the mistress of a despised moneylender but soon falls in love with a student.A lowly divorcee is tricked into becoming the mistress of a despised moneylender but soon falls in love with a student.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination
Eizô Tanaka
- Zenkichi, Otama's father
- (as Eizo Tanaka)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
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- Quotes
[first lines]
Osan, the marriage broker: It's true he's offering to keep you as his mistress. But the man is a widower who's living with his children. So, to be in his keeping is like marrying him. But there's his reputation to consider.
- Crazy creditsThis is a story from the time when migrating wild geese still flew over Tokyo.
- Alternate versionsSubtitled version and dubbed version available.
- ConnectionsFeatured in A Japanese Film Festival (1957)
Featured review
The difficult situation of a married wife in Japan finding out that her husband has another wife.
A young beautiful delicate woman is tricked into marriage with a money-lender, fooled by her mother, who wants the money-lender for her son-in-law to get rid of her debts, and she tells her daughter that he is a widower. He is not. His wife is still there with two children, and when the bartered concubine and the real wife learn about each other, and the new bride realizes that she has been tricked, this film becomes truly interesting. She evades the old wife consistently in sheer terror of her righteous bitterness, while the reality of her own situation of humiliation gradually becomes unbearable. At the same time, the money-lender is in a tragic and awkward situation himself as well, and to all this comes the complication of a young student of medicine, as he and the young wife develop some affection for each other. It's a very human story of very human predicaments filmed with supreme delicacy, bringing out all the passionate feelings of the players without these having to show them, it's all under perfect restraint, consistently keeping up an exquisite style of extreme artistry, to which also the wonderful misty cinematography and the endearingly beautiful music bring some additions to bring this cinematographic work of art to perfection. There is nothing more to be said than to agree with a previous critic, summarizing the impressions to 100% perfection - it's a Madame Butterfly in perfect Japanese without opera and dramatic climaxes but instead the more delicate and beautiful in consummate human sensitivity.
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- clanciai
- Oct 17, 2020
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- Also known as
- Wild Geese
- Filming locations
- Hamacho, Tokyo, Japan(Shop Location)
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- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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