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The Actress and the Poet
JAPAN · 1935

The Actress and the Poet

Mikio Naruse
urban neighbours artistic life insurance schemes class dynamics romantic entanglement
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Synopsis

Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and his nosy and greedy wife. Enter a young and seemingly high-class couple who just so happens is open to purchasing life insurance from their swift neighbour. In the meantime, life is imitating art across the street, which may end up providing for either a happy ending or a rude split - eventually that is.

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