Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka

Name	Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka
Native Name	Hide no Header none Kanji 力と女の世の中
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Caption	The typist and the main character.
Director	Kenzō Masaoka
Producer	Shiro Kido
Writer	Tadao Ikeda
Music	Masanori Imasawa
Studio	Shochiku
Released	1933-04-13
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Plot

The protagonist is a father of four children. His wife is 180cm tall, and weighs 120kg due to her incredibly large physique. Because he is constantly being henpecked at home, he becomes involved in an affair with a typist at his company and accidentally tells his wife about it while talking in his sleep. After obtaining additional evidence of the affair, she goes to confront both her husband and the typist at her husband's office.

Production

In 1927, The Jazz Singer was released in the United States as the first talkie film, and Japanese film companies began working on creating them as well. Shochiku released in 1931, the first Japanese talkie. Due to the success of this film, the president of Shochiku, Shirō Kido, commissioned Masaoka to make the first anime talkie, and he began working on it immediately.

Masaoka worked on the film for a little over a year and finally completed it in October 1932. The film was released in theaters the following year on 13 April 1933. At this time, the job of voice actor did not exist, so Shochiku used regular actors for the voice parts. Casting well-known stars, such as Roppa Furukawa and Ranko Sawa (of the Takarazuka Revue), helped make the film a success.

Staff

• Original Creator, Script: Tadao Ikeda
• Original Planning, Director: Kenzō Masaoka
• Animation: Mitsuyo Seo, Seiichi Harada, Saburō Yamamoto
• Photography: Kakuzan Kimura
• Producer: Shirō Kido
• Voiceover Director: Hiromasa Nomura
• Audio: Haruo Tsuchihashi
• Music Director: Masanori Imasawa

Cast

• Roppa Furukawa as Main Character
• Ranko Sawa as Wife
• Yōko Murashima as Typist
• Akio Isono as Tarō
• Kōji Mitsui as Jiro (credited as Hideo Mitsui)
• Fusako Fujita as Hanako
• Yōko Fujita as Toshiko

See also

• List of lost films

References

• Anime: A Guide to Japanese Animation (1958-1988), Baricordi, Andrea, December 2000, Protoculture Inc., Montreal, , , Quebec, , , Canada
• Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1993, Kodansha, Tokyo, , Japan
• Pioneers of Japanese Animation, Jasper, Sharp, Midnight Eye: The Latest and Best in Japanese Cinema, 23 September 2004, 20 May 2009
• ja:前編：日本のアニメーション芸術年代史 ─アニメーション─, Takayuki, Ōguchi, Japan Media Arts Festival, September 2006, 20 May 2009, ja, 7 September 2011, dead
• Chikara to onna no yo no naka, 1933-04-13, 2025-10-31, Masaoka Eiga Seisakujo, Shochiku
• Chikara to onna no yo no naka, 1933-04-13, 2025-10-31, Masaoka Eiga Seisakujo, Shochiku
• ja:力と女の世の中 (1933), AllCinema Movie & DVD Database, ja, 20 May 2009
• ja:力と女の世の中, ja, Japanese Movie Database, 20 May 2009

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