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19351h 14mJapanese

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

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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.

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DirectorMikio Naruse

Keywords

goldpoetrygeishamountainmarriagebased on play or musicaltokyo, japanhaikusmall village

Cast

Sachiko Chiba as Kimiko Yamamoto

Sachiko Chiba

Kimiko Yamamoto

Yuriko Hanabusa as Oyuki

Yuriko Hanabusa

Oyuki

Toshiko Itō as Etsuko Yamamoto

Toshiko Itō

Etsuko Yamamoto

Setsuko Horikoshi as Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)

Setsuko Horikoshi

Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)

Sadao Maruyama as Shunsaku Yamamoto

Sadao Maruyama

Shunsaku Yamamoto

Heihachirō Ōkawa as Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)

Heihachirō Ōkawa

Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)

Kaoru Itō as Kenichi (Oyuki's son)

Kaoru Itō

Kenichi (Oyuki's son)

Kamatari Fujiwara as Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)

Kamatari Fujiwara

Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)

Chikako Hosokawa as Shingo's wife

Chikako Hosokawa

Shingo's wife