Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

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Released:
1935-08-15

Overview:
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

Runtime:
1h 14min

Genre:
Drama

  • Cast:
  • Sachiko Chiba
    as
    Kimiko Yamamoto
  • Yuriko Hanabusa
    as
    Oyuki
  • Toshiko Itō
    as
    Etsuko Yamamoto
  • Setsuko Horikoshi
    as
    Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
  • Sadao Maruyama
    as
    Shunsaku Yamamoto