Wife! Be Like a Rose!

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

74 mins | Drama | Aug. 15, 1935

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.

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

74 mins | Drama | Aug. 15, 1935

Wife! Be Like a Rose!
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.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers P.C.L. Eiga Seisaku-jo
Original title 妻よ薔薇のやうに
Directors Mikio Naruse
Writers Minoru Nakano, Mikio Naruse

Cast

Sachiko Chiba

as Kimiko Yamamoto

Yuriko Hanabusa

as Oyuki

Toshiko Itô

as Etsuko Yamamoto

Setsuko Horikoshi

as Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)

Sadao Maruyama

as Shunsaku Yamamoto

Heihachirô Ôkawa

as Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)

Kaoru Itō

as Kenichi (Oyuki's son)

Kamatari Fujiwara

as Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)

Chikako Hosokawa

as Shingo's wife