Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Aug 15 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.
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Sachiko Chiba
Kimiko Yamamoto
Yuriko Hanabusa
Oyuki
Toshiko Itō
Etsuko Yamamoto
Setsuko Horikoshi
Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
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