The Neighbor's Wife and Mine

The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (マダムと女房, Madamu to nyōbō) is a 1931 Japanese comedy film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

[3][4] The comedic story depicts a playwright attempting to write a play by a strict deadline and getting distracted by his family and a noisy next-door jazz band.

The film opens with Shibano, a playwright for a Tokyo theater, squabbling with a painter over his work depicting a local house, newly up for rent.

The woman who appears to scold them ends up dissolving the situation, and Shibano finally states his desire to move into the house pictured previously.

As the group practices and treats Shibano to drink, he listens to the song lyrics and becomes infected with the new jazz fever of the period.

The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1931) by Heinosuke Gosho