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Wife of a Spy (2020)

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Original title
スパイの妻
Directed by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Genre
historical drama
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 55m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 103 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman in Japan during World War II begins to suspect that her husband is spying for the United States. She must decide what to do with this knowledge.

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What happens

Wife of a Spy (Japanese: スパイの妻, Hepburn: Supai no Tsuma) is a 2020 Japanese spy drama film directed and co-written by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Starring Yū Aoi and Issey Takahashi, the film is set in Japan during World War II, and centers on a wife who starts suspecting that her husband may be a spy for the United States. A theatrical version of Wife of a Spy was selected in the main competition section of the 77th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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