Wife! Be Like a Rose!

Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

15/08/1935
Drama
1h 14m

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.

  • Mikio NaruseDirector, Writer
  • Original Title

    妻よ薔薇のやうに

  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    Japanese

Keywords

  • gold
  • poetry
  • geisha
  • mountain
  • marriage
  • based on play or musical
  • tokyo, japan
  • haiku
  • small village

Top Billed Cast

Sachiko Chiba

Sachiko Chiba

Kimiko Yamamoto

Yuriko Hanabusa

Yuriko Hanabusa

Oyuki

Toshiko Itō

Etsuko Yamamoto

Setsuko Horikoshi

Setsuko Horikoshi

Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)

Sadao Maruyama

Sadao Maruyama

Shunsaku Yamamoto

Heihachirō Ōkawa

Heihachirō Ōkawa

Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)

Kaoru Itō

Kenichi (Oyuki's son)

Kamatari Fujiwara

Kamatari Fujiwara

Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)

Chikako Hosokawa

Chikako Hosokawa

Shingo's wife

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