Husband and Wife

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Husband and Wife (film)

Husband and Wife (夫婦 Fufu) is a Japanese film directed by Mikio Naruse released in 1953. Like other Naruse films from this period, such as Repast and Wife, the theme of Husband and Wife involves a couple trapped with each other.Ken Uehara and Yôko Sugi star as the titular husband and wife. Mikuni Rentaro portrays a widower with whom the couple move in due to economic circumstances. The film deals with the difficulties that ensue when both the wife and the landlord find themselves attracted to each other. Towards the end of the film, the couple contemplates getting an abortion to help alleviate their financial distress.

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Slant Magazine critic Keith Uhlrich awarded Husband and Wife 3.5/4 stars, describing it as a "what if" scenario, specifically, "what if Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were locked together in a room and forced to fight over Mary Pickford?" At one point during the film the trio attends a re-enactment of a Chaplin comedy routine. According to Uhlrich, the movies's theme is the journey towards "reconciliation of those contradictions inherent to being human." It is one of several Naruse films in which a character is forced to "redefine themselves and test their strength."

Husband and Wife (operetta)

Husband and Wife (Azerbaijani: Ər və Arvad) is a musical comedy in three acts with music and libretto written by Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov, and an early example of the genre in Azerbaijan. It is the first of Hajibeyov's trilogy of three musical comedies, which also includes If Not That One, Then This One and Arshin mal alan.

The operetta's themes centre on the family and everyday life, oppression in the family and Azerbaijani woman in society. The premiere was held on May 24, 1910, in Baku, in the theatre-circus of the Nikitin brothers. Huseyngulu Sarabski (Marjan bey), Ahmed Agdamski (Minnat khanim), M.H.Teregulov (Safi) and Mirzagha Aliyev (Kerbelayi Gubad) played the leading parts, Huseyn Arablinski was the stage director and Uzeyir Hajibeyov was the conductor. Husband and Wife was subsequently staged in other theatres in Azerbaijan, including Nakhchivan, Agdam and Shaki.

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