Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935•1h 14m•7.2•Released
Drama
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Mikio Naruse
Languages
Japanese
Studio
P.C.L. Eiga Seisaku-jo
Cast
Sachiko Chiba
Kimiko Yamamoto
Yuriko Hanabusa
Oyuki
Toshiko Itō
Etsuko Yamamoto
Setsuko Horikoshi
Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
Sadao Maruyama
Shunsaku Yamamoto
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
Kaoru Itō
Kenichi (Oyuki's son)
Kamatari Fujiwara
Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)
Chikako Hosokawa
Shingo's wife
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