is a 1958 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on a novel by Saisei Murà Â.
Kyà Âko, daughter of successful writer Hirayama, rejects several marriage prospects before taking Ryà Âkichi, owner of a small used book store, as her husband. A few years into the marriage, Kyà Âko has to start selling parts of the household, as the manuscripts of Ryà Âkichi, who is ambitious to become a novelist, keep getting returned by publishers. Yagihara, a magazine editor and acquaintance of Hirayama, outspokenly tells Ryà Âkichi that his work lacks originality and an elaborate style. Kyà Âko suggests that Ryà Âkichi shows his manuscripts to her father, but he declines, arguing that it is Hirayama's overpowering presence which hinders him in his writing. Ryà Âkichi's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic due to his drinking, and the couple's financial and emotional situation worsens. Kyà Âko repeatedly leaves her home to stay at her father's place, but insists that a divorce is the final resort. When Kyà Âko again returns to Ryà Âkichi, the mother asks Hirayama if they shouldn't split up. Hirayama replies, only when Kyà Âko comes home exhausted and can't go on anymore, the time to split up has come.
In his 2005 review for Slant Magazine, Keith Uhlich called Anzukko "a loving portrait of a woman tragically caught between her wants and her responsibilities, fated to tread a potentially never-ending path between the trials of her marriage and the refuge of her past."