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Wife! Be Like a Rose!

19351h 14mMikio Naruse
IMDb 7.5 · Rotten Tomatoes 80%

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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.

Drama
GoldPoetryGeishaMountainMarriageBased On Play Or MusicalTokyo, JapanHaikuSmall Village

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What is Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935) about?

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.

Who stars in Wife! Be Like a Rose!?

Wife! Be Like a Rose! stars Sachiko Chiba (Kimiko Yamamoto), Yuriko Hanabusa (Oyuki), Toshiko Itō (Etsuko Yamamoto), Setsuko Horikoshi (Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)), Sadao Maruyama (Shunsaku Yamamoto). The film was directed by Mikio Naruse.

How long is Wife! Be Like a Rose!?

Wife! Be Like a Rose! has a runtime of 1 min and premiered in 1935.

Is Wife! Be Like a Rose! worth watching?

Wife! Be Like a Rose! holds an IMDb rating of 7.5/10. On Rotten Tomatoes it scores 80. Fans of Drama are most likely to enjoy it — TasteRay can tell you how well it matches your personal taste.

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