is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Kaneto Shindà  and starring Nobuko Otowa and Koreya Senda. It was written by Shindà  based on Guy de Maupassant's 1883 novel Une vie.
Shortly after graduating from high school, Fujiko Shirakawa is married to Shintarà  Yamazaki, whose parents run a lucrative restaurant. Fujiko soon finds out that not only her father-in-law has two mistresses, but that Shintarà  has an affair with maid Yuki. Pregnant with Shintarà Â's child, Fujiko gives in to her parents' and parents-in-law's appeal to stay with her husband. When Yuki also turns out to be pregnant and is sent back to her parents, Fujiko manages to talk her parents-in-law into raising Yuki's son Jirà  together with her own son Tarà  in the Yamazaki household. Some time later, Shintarà  dies, and with the outbreak of the Pacific War, Tarà  and Jirà  are mobilised.
After the end of the war, Fujiko manages the still flourishing restaurant of the Yamazaki family. Her son Tarà Â, who has returned from the war while Jirà  has gone missing, rapes one of the maids and disappears. Fujiko takes in the maid's child to raise it in her household.
Reviewing the film in their 1959 book The Japanese Film â Art & Industry, Donald Richie and Joseph L. Anderson saw a "strong evocation of the past", but faulted Shindà  for going too far in the depiction of the story's "unpleasant aspects".