When actress Sachiko Chiba and her husband, poet Hiroshi Uruki, move into a gossipy street, they are a happy couple. True, she is the breadwinner of the household and his literary efforts pay almost nothing, but they don't care. However, when she asks him to help her learn her lines in a new play in which she plays the wife in a similar couple who have a fight, she confesses she doesn't understand the character.... but understanding is coming her way very soon.
Mikio Naruse is best remembered for directing tragedies of women's problems, but like any good director, he could turn his hand to comedy, and he understood that people taking themselves too seriously is the source of a lot of unnecessary sadness. This being an early sound film for him, he gets playful with the noises of voices and the street, in a way that later sound films abandoned.
Mikio Naruse is best remembered for directing tragedies of women's problems, but like any good director, he could turn his hand to comedy, and he understood that people taking themselves too seriously is the source of a lot of unnecessary sadness. This being an early sound film for him, he gets playful with the noises of voices and the street, in a way that later sound films abandoned.
