Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

7.2/10 74 min Drama

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)

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