Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
August 15, 1935
Drama
1h 14m


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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Mikio Naruse
- Kimiko Yamamoto Sachiko Chiba
- Oyuki Yuriko Hanabusa
- Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter) Setsuko Horikoshi
- Shunsaku Yamamoto Sadao Maruyama
- Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend) Heihachirō Ōkawa
- Shingo (Kimiko's uncle) Kamatari Fujiwara
- Shingo's wife Chikako Hosokawa
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Keywords
- gold
- poetry
- geisha
- mountain
- marriage
- based on play or musical
- tokyo, japan
- haiku
- small village