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The Actress and the Poet (1935) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1935 · 73 mins · Japanese
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- Directed by
- Mikio Naruse
- Starring
- Masao Mishima, Kamatari Fujiwara, Hideo Saeki, Haruko Toda, Hiroshi Uruki, Sachiko Chiba
Among the neighbors live a poet and his actress wife, a bachelor aspiring author, a tobacco‑shop owner who is landlady, and an insurance salesman with his greedy spouse. An upper‑class couple moves in, eager to buy life insurance from the salesman. Meanwhile, events across the street begin to mirror the drama, hinting at a happy ending or a split.
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