{"id":340592,"date":"2021-09-17T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-wife-of-a-spy-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2021-09-17T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:58:00","slug":"watch-wife-of-a-spy-with-film-summary-and-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-wife-of-a-spy-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Wife of a Spy with film summary and movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22c2363759c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22c2363759c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-wife-of-a-spy-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Wife_of_a_Spy_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Wife of a Spy Online&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-wife-of-a-spy-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#Simon_Abrams\" >Simon Abrams<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-wife-of-a-spy-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#Wife_of_a_Spy_2021\" >Wife of a Spy (2021)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Wife_of_a_Spy_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Wife of a Spy Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/review\/primary_image\/reviews\/wife-of-a-spy-movie-review-2021\/wife-of-a-spy-movie-review-2021.jpeg\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>There\u2019s a great\u2014or maybe just better\u2014drama somewhere in the pre-WWII Japanese period drama \u201cWife of a Spy,\u201d a low-simmering psychological thriller about Satoko Fukahara (Yu Aoi) and her mysterious husband Yusaku (Issey Takahashi). Most of that greatness is already present in writer\/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and co-writer Tadashi Nohara\u2019s adaptation of Ryusuke Hamaguchi\u2019s scenario. But their story isn\u2019t as interesting as Satoko.<\/p>\n<p>Kurosawa (\u201cPulse,\u201d \u201cTo the Ends of the Earth\u201d) typically focuses on sustaining a mood of disquiet, which goes a long way in this otherwise tidy melodrama about Satoko\u2019s inevitable disillusionment and frustration with being married to (you guessed it) a spy.   <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>Set in Kobe sometime in 1941, Satoko\u2019s story ultimately concerns women like her, and how they\u2019re first degraded and then dismissed to background roles in the theater of war. That hardtack narrative doesn\u2019t seem to interest Kurosawa so much as the sensory details that hint at Satoko\u2019s inner conflict: the rattle of windows, the glare of natural light, and the drift of human feet, on their way to parts unknown. The rest of \u201cWife of a Spy\u201d can\u2019t keep up with Aoi\u2019s restless heroine.   <\/p>\n<p>In \u201cWife of a Spy,\u201d Yusaku mostly exists as the object of Satoko\u2019s quest. He\u2019s always just out of reach, even when he\u2019s talking to or sitting before her. She suspects he\u2019s having an affair, which makes sense given how much dramatic stress Kurosawa puts on a brief scene where Yusaku, after returning from a business <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>, embraces Satoko while also staring right at the equally secretive Hiroko (Hyunri). Hiroko soon turns up dead, which reduces her to another piece of Yusaku\u2019s puzzle.   <\/p>\n<p>But really, Yusaku is Satoko\u2019s problem to solve, as we see in establishing scenes where she tries to investigate and understand Yusaku. She learns some things about her husband by talking to his nephew Fumio (Ryota Bando), a disillusioned young man who resigns from Yusaku\u2019s import\/export company in order to write about his experiences in Manchuria. Manchuria\u2019s mainly important to the plot as a foreign destination (though there\u2019s obviously also some spy stuff going on there): Yusaku likes traveling there because \u201ceverything\u2019s cheap,\u201d in his words. So it makes sense that Yusaku \u201c[wants] to see it one more time\u201d before the war escalates further. Fumio, on the other hand, doesn\u2019t care much for Manchuria. &#8220;His adventurous spirit got &#8230; fired up&#8221; there, according to Yusaku, and there\u2019s obviously a lot more to that story.   <\/p>\n<p>Still, Fumio\u2019s baggage is only so important to Satoko\u2019s quest to understand Yusaku. She persists in asking questions, about Yusaku\u2019s activities abroad and his connection to Hiroko, but constantly encounters resistance. That\u2019s the most compelling thing about \u201cWife of a Spy,\u201d the flickering clarity that illuminates her formerly ingratiating male acquaintances, like Fumio, Yusaku, and even childhood friend Taiji (Masahiro Higashide), the last of whom now serves as a military police chief. Taiji is ultimately reduced to his uniform, as an early conversation with Yusaku suggests. \u201cI\u2019m in uniform, but I dislike arresting people,\u201d Taiji tells Yusaku.   <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>\u201cBut that\u2019s your job,\u201d Yusaku replies after a long pause. The pause is what makes the scene dramatic, not the dialogue.   <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, even the most insinuating conversations steer Satoko back towards a frustrating, clich\u00e9d understanding of Yusaku as a product of war. Fumio suggests that \u201cperhaps in ignorance there\u2019s a glimmer of hope,\u201d but there\u2019s not much to Fusaku\u2019s relationship with his country\u2014he explains his conflicted emotions plainly in a neat little speech\u2014or how it affects Satoko (poorly, obviously). He\u2019s a canvas for her to project her emotions onto, but there\u2019s only so much room for expressive details in this crowded, but uncomplicated narrative.   <\/p>\n<p>Too much of Kurosawa\u2019s movie feels like a retro procedural whose mysteries are often explained away as soon as their hinted at, as in a tense dream sequence where Satoko imagines a secret rendez-vous between Yusaku and Hiroko. The lights are low enough, and the trysting lovers certainly sound menacing; they don\u2019t seem to notice or care about Satoko, and their laughter echoes loudly on the soundtrack until the scene ends. But not much about this scene requires our interpretation. It\u2019s very much what it looks like at a glance.   <\/p>\n<p>Still, there <em>are<\/em> hints at a genuinely alluring, emotionally complex work throughout \u201cWife of a Spy,\u201d like when family friend Dr. Nozaki (Takashi Sasano) suggests that \u201cinformation cannot be trusted these days.\u201d He could be talking about the silent movie that Satoko and Fumio star in, though that movie doesn\u2019t really matter to the plot beyond a peripheral scene or two. The rest of the \u201cWife of a Spy\u201d piles on too much unnecessary information, making it impossible to get lost in its plot\u2019s distracting convolutions. Because a man who is his uniform isn\u2019t any more complex than a man who wants to escape his country, and a woman stuck in the middle doesn\u2019t have many places left to go. <\/p>\n<p><em>Now playing in select theaters.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Simon Abrams\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/simon-abrams\/featured_simon.jpg\" title=\"Simon Abrams\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Simon_Abrams\"><\/span>Simon Abrams<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker and freelance film critic whose work has been featured in\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Vanity Fair<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The\u00a0Village Voice,<\/em>\u00a0and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section> <\/section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wife of a Spy movie poster\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/movie\/movie_poster\/wife-of-a-spy-2021\/large_wife-of-a-spy-poster.jpeg\" title=\"Wife of a Spy movie poster\"><\/img><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Wife_of_a_Spy_2021\"><\/span> Wife of a Spy (2021) <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p> 114 minutes <meta content=\"PT114M\" itemprop=\"duration\"><\/meta><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/chazs-blog\/facets-reopening-on-september-17th-with-anne-at-13000-ft\/thumb_E0996702-557F-425D-8E97-7CEE888235B6.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 15 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/interviews\/justin-chon-alicia-vikander-blue-bayou-interview-2021\/thumb_justin-chon-interview.jpeg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 23 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/interviews\/alicia-vikander-justin-chon-blue-bayou-interview-2021\/thumb_vikander-interview.jpeg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 23 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/festivals\/tiff-2021-the-survivor-montana-story-lakewood\/thumb_The_Survivor_01.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 2 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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