Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
1h 14m | PG-13
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.
Director: Mikio Naruse
Studio: P.C.L. Eiga Seisaku-jo
Genre: Drama
Video: 720p
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)