The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his new home, too.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, along with other pictures of the era that I find interesting, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. The oldest surviving feature-length Japanese sound film, "The Neighbor's Wife and Mine" finds a writer constantly distracted by his new, jazz-loving neighbors. The picture won the award for best film of the year in the film magazine Kinema Junpo, and modern viewers generally find it an entertaining, if slight, movie. Unfortunately, all the best quality versions of this film that I could find have burnt-in English subtitles. If I find another high quality copy that does not have those, I will upload it right away.
Why this is free to watch
The Neighbour's Wife and Mine (1931) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Heinosuke Gosho
- Starring
- Atsushi Watanabe, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Ichimura, Satoko Date, Dekao Yokoo, Hisao Yoshitani, Ichirō Tsukida, Shinichi Himori
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