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The Neighbor's Wife and Mine

Original title: Madamu to nyôbô
  • 19311931
  • 1h 4m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
243
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POPULARITY
177,192
6,621
The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1931)
ComedyDrama
A writer struggles to finish his story against many distractions, but the jazz party next door proves to be too much.A writer struggles to finish his story against many distractions, but the jazz party next door proves to be too much.A writer struggles to finish his story against many distractions, but the jazz party next door proves to be too much.
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
243
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
177,192
6,621
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    • Director
      • Heinosuke Gosho
    • Writers
      • Akira Fushimi
      • Komatsu Kitamura
    • Stars
      • Atsushi Watanabe
      • Kinuyo Tanaka
      • Mitsuko Ichimura
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Heinosuke Gosho
    • Writers
      • Akira Fushimi
      • Komatsu Kitamura
    • Stars
      • Atsushi Watanabe
      • Kinuyo Tanaka
      • Mitsuko Ichimura
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    • 5User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win

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    Satoko Date and Atsushi Watanabe in The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1931)
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    Atsushi Watanabe
    • Shinsaku Shibano (the Playwright)
    Kinuyo Tanaka
    Kinuyo Tanaka
    • Kinuyo (Wife of the Playwright)
    Mitsuko Ichimura
    • Playwright daughter
    Satoko Date
    • Takiko Yamakawa (the Neighbor's Wife
    Shin'ichi Himori
    Shin'ichi Himori
    Tokuji Kobayashi
    Yukiko Inoue
    Takeshi Sakamoto
    Takeshi Sakamoto
    • Director
      • Heinosuke Gosho
    • Writers
      • Akira Fushimi
      • Komatsu Kitamura
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    • Trivia
      This was the first all-sound Japanese film.
    • Connections
      Featured in Nihon eiga-shi (1941)
    • Soundtracks
      Speed jidai
      Words by Hachirô Satô

      Music by Tetsuo Takashina

    User reviews5

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    Top review
    6/10
    How To Not Write
    This was not, as I had expected, a silent movie, but a full talky: the first, according to the IMDb, produced in Japan. Atsushi Watanabe is a playwright who has just rented a country house and moved there, with his wife, Kinuyo Tanaka, where he is to finish his new play -- which he has barely begun -- within a month. However, as you might expect, this is rather more easily said than done. There are constant interruptions: the friends who helped them move won't leave. The children demand constant attention. Door-to-door salesmen pop by to sell him patent medicines, and there's a jazz band practicing next door, with a modernistic and sexy Satoko Date to arouse the jealousy of the wife.

    Gosho was clearly held in high esteem by production company Shochiku, to helm such an important movie, and he acquits himself in his comedy direction very well. Given the timing, it's no wonder that most of the jokes are about noise, their disruption, and a definite nostalgia for the Good Old Days is evident in the movie, even as everyone shrugs their shoulders and admits this is 1931 and we must be modern. Watanabe, who later played many roles, great and small for Kurosawa, is excellent in his role, awkward and gawky and impatient and very real. It's certainly not a great movie, but it remains a very pleasant effort,
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    • Release date
      • August 1, 1931 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Madame and Wife
    • Production company
      • Shochiku
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 4 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.20 : 1

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