How Can I Find Madamu To Nyobo (The Neighbor's Wife and Mine) 1931

Tue May 1 14:59:34 EDT 2007

I am a student studying film at Harvard University.  For my final paper 
this semester, I am examining the Japanese transition from the Benshi 
narration to the modern mechanical sound system.  As I do my preliminary 
research, the film /Madamu to Nyobo/ (1931) directed by Heinosuke Gosho 
keeps coming up as the first successful Japanese sound film.  It would 
help my paper a great deal to have a look at this film, but I am having 
a terrible time finding it.  Somebody in the film department of New 
York's Japanese Society reccomended that I post to this list about my 
problem.  While I know that celluloid copies exist, that's not very 
helpful to me, unless there is going to be a screening around Boston 
within the next couple of weeks.   I don't think it's been officially 
released anywhere on VHS or DVD, but these things sometimes find their 
way to portable mediums unofficially.  I would appreciate any help.  
Also, if anybody knows of any articles that deal specifically with this 
film and its relation to the fall of the benshi, that would also be very 
useful. 

Cheers,
C. Ché Salazar
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