![]() He’s always just out of reach, even when he’s talking to or sitting before her. ![]() In “Wife of a Spy,” Yusaku mostly exists as the object of Satoko’s quest. The rest of “Wife of a Spy” can’t keep up with Aoi’s restless heroine. That hardtack narrative doesn’t seem to interest Kurosawa so much as the sensory details that hint at Satoko’s inner conflict: the rattle of windows, the glare of natural light, and the drift of human feet, on their way to parts unknown. ![]() ![]() Set in Kobe sometime in 1941, Satoko’s story ultimately concerns women like her, and how they’re first degraded and then dismissed to background roles in the theater of war.
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