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Wife! Be Like a Rose!

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

Mikio Naruse

1935

  • Drama
7.2

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

  • Mikio NaruseDirector
  • Sachiko ChibaKimiko Yamamoto
  • Yuriko HanabusaOyuki
  • Toshiko ItōEtsuko Yamamoto
  • Setsuko HorikoshiShizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
  • Sadao MaruyamaShunsaku Yamamoto
  • Heihachirō ŌkawaSeiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
  • Kaoru ItōKenichi (Oyuki's son)
  • Kamatari FujiwaraShingo (Kimiko's uncle)

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