The Most Valuable Wife

Year: 1959

Runtime: 95 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Yasuzō Masumura

DramaComedy

Kyoko, the third daughter of the modest Nonomiya family, finds herself targeted for an arranged marriage. Her older sisters—Momoko, married to Mihara Shoji president Ichiro, and Riko, wed to managing director Jiro—plan to pair Kyoko with Saburo, the Mihara family's third son. Angry at the unsolicited match, Kyoko vows never to marry, yet she soon begins to notice another suitor.

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