Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
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.
Cast
Sachiko Chiba
Kimiko Yamamoto
Yuriko Hanabusa
Oyuki
Setsuko Horikoshi
Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
Sadao Maruyama
Shunsaku Yamamoto
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
Kamatari Fujiwara
Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)Recommendations
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