Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

08/15/1935 (JP) • 1h 14m

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.

Top Billed Cast

Sachiko Chiba

Kimiko Yamamoto

Toshiko Itō

Etsuko Yamamoto

Setsuko Horikoshi

Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)

Sadao Maruyama

Shunsaku Yamamoto

Heihachirō Ōkawa

Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)

Kaoru Itō

Kenichi (Oyuki's son)

Kamatari Fujiwara

Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)

Chikako Hosokawa

Shingo's wife


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Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

gold

poetry

geisha

mountain

marriage

based on play or musical

tokyo, japan

haiku

small village

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