This film begins with a playwright by the name of "Shinsaku Shibano" (Atsushi Watanabe) looking for a house to rent somewhere in the country where he can have some peace of mind from all of the distractions normally found in the big city. To that effect, once he finds what he is looking for he quickly moves in with his family and eventually starts to work on a play that has a short deadline. Unfortunately, it's at this time that he discovers that his neighbor's wife, "Takiko Yamakawa" (Satoko Date) is a jazz singer who constantly invites fellow musicians over to practice some musical numbers they intend to sing before audiences in the near future. Naturally, unable to concentrate with all of the noise, he ventures over to the house where he is welcomed with open arms-and this causes problems for his own wife "Kinuyo" (Kinuyo Tanaka). Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this was the first "talkie" ever produced in Japan and as such the viewer may need to make some allowances for the audio. Likewise, it also takes place during a time when Japan was experiencing social tensions brought on by its emergence into the modern world and because of that the humor may be lost on viewers unfamiliar with these changes. Be that as it may, although this movie definitely has some fairly humorous scenes here and there, it really hasn't aged very well and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Average.
