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Wife! Be Like a Rose!

7.2 / 10 7.2 1935 1h 14m

Drama

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.

Directed by Mikio Naruse

VISUAL NOTES

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CAST

The people behind the story

Sachiko Chiba

Sachiko ChibaKimiko Yamamoto

Yuriko Hanabusa

Yuriko HanabusaOyuki

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Toshiko ItōEtsuko Yamamoto

Setsuko Horikoshi

Setsuko HorikoshiShizuko (Oyuki's daughter)

Sadao Maruyama

Sadao MaruyamaShunsaku Yamamoto

Heihachirō Ōkawa

Heihachirō ŌkawaSeiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)

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Kaoru ItōKenichi (Oyuki's son)

Kamatari Fujiwara

Kamatari FujiwaraShingo (Kimiko's uncle)