The Most Valuable Wife with Chinese, English and Russian subtitles
is a 1959 Japanese movie directed by Yasuzō Masumura.
Kyoko, the youngest daughter of a bureaucrat widower, finds herself at the center of her sister Momoko’s calculated efforts to secure the family’s prominence. Married to Ichiro Mihara, the influential head of Mihara & Co., Momoko has already arranged advantageous marriages for her other sisters and now targets Kyoko as the key to furthering her ambitions. Momoko plans to wed her to Saburo, Ichiro’s younger brother, but Kyoko is determined to defy her sister’s schemes and maintain her independence. What follows is a lighthearted yet poignant tale of rebellion, unexpected romance, and the delicate balance between tradition and self-determination in post-war Japan.
