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1930

That Night’s Wife

6.9 1h 5mCrime Drama

In noirish darkness, a man commits a shocking robbery. But, as we soon learn, this seeming criminal mastermind is actually a sensitive everyman driven to desperation by the need to provide for his family. Unfolding over the course of one night, Yasujiro Ozu's That Night's Wife combines suspense with the emotional domestic drama one associates with the filmmaker's later masterpieces, and employs beautifully evocative camera work.

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In noirish darkness, a man commits a shocking robbery. But, as we soon learn, this seeming criminal mastermind is actually a sensitive everyman driven to desperation by the need to provide for his family. Unfolding over the co... Read more

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Watch "That Night’s Wife" on Criterion Channel released in 1930. It's a crime and drama movie, and has a rating of 6.9 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.