Film
Devices Stronger Than Women
Japan- Director
- Yasuki Chiba
- Year
- 1963
An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics company. On opening night, PR manager Sugishita is forced to join the contest, where husbands fail miserably at household chores. Frustrated, the men later gather to complain about their domineering wives, only to be confronted by a carefree stranger who teaches them absurd tricks to “stand up to women.”
Top cast
Akira Takarada
Shin Takayama (Nanahikari Electric publicity staff)
Tadao Takashima
Goro Miyake (Tozai Trading accounting staff)
Hitoshi Ueki
Hitoshi Noguchi (Playboy)
Yōko Tsukasa
Eiko Suda (CM Girl)
Frankie Sakai
Nobuo Koyama (Kimono shop heir)
Yumi Shirakawa
Reiko Koyama (Nobuo’s wife)
Reiko Dan
Megumi Miyake (Goro’s wife)
Daisuke Katō
Daisaku Sugishita (Publicity Manager)
Chikage Awashima
Yasuko Sugishita (Daisaku’s wife)
Ichirō Arishima
Taichi Kakegawa (Librarian)
Keiko Awaji
Yoshiko Kakegawa (Taichi’s wife)
Mitsuko Kusabue
Yoko Nakamura (real name: Haruko Oshima)
Akihiko Hirata
Rokusuke Sakai (CM Song Lyricist)
Keiko Yanagawa
Kimiko Yoshino (Hinode Life Secretary)
Haruko Tōgō
Matsuyo Sano (Kinsaku’s wife)
Yū Fujiki
Directed by
Yasuki Chiba
Written by
Ichirō Ikeda, Ryōzō Kasahara
Produced by
Sanezumi Fujimoto