Drama · Japan · 1935 · 1h 14m

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

妻よ薔薇のやうに

Wife! Be Like a Rose! poster
Director
Mikio Naruse
Cast
Sachiko Chiba as Kimiko Yamamoto Yuriko Hanabusa as Oyuki Toshiko Itō as Etsuko Yamamoto Setsuko Horikoshi as Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter) Sadao Maruyama as Shunsaku Yamamoto Heihachirō Ōkawa as Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
Crew
Hiroshi Suzuki — Director of Photography Kôichi Iwashita — Editor Noboru Itō — Original Music Composer Mikio Naruse — Writer
Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes
goldpoetrygeishamountainmarriagebased on play or musicaltokyo, japanhaikusmall village
Key Collaborators
Mikio Naruse Director Hiroshi Suzuki Director of Photography Kôichi Iwashita Editor Noboru Itō Original Music Composer Mikio Naruse Writer
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