Wife of a Spy
| Wife of a Spy | |||||
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| Japanese name | |||||
| Kanji | スパイの妻 | ||||
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| Genre | Historical drama Romance drama | ||||
| Screenplay by | Ryūsuke Hamaguchi Tadashi Nohara Kiyoshi Kurosawa | ||||
| Directed by | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | ||||
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| Composer | Ryosuke Nagaoka | ||||
| Country of origin | Japan | ||||
| Original language | Japanese | ||||
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| Executive producers | Kei Shinohara Keisuke Dobashi Takashi Sawada Hideyuki Okamoto Satoshi Takada Kubota Osamu | ||||
| Producer | Akihisa Yamamoto | ||||
| Cinematography | Tetsunosuke Sasaki | ||||
| Editor | Lee Hidemi | ||||
| Running time | 115 minutes | ||||
| Production companies | NHK Enterprises CVI Entertainment | ||||
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| Network | NHK | ||||
| Release | June 6, 2020 | ||||
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.