Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935Kimiko, 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.
Acted in
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)
Kaoru Itō
as Kenichi (Oyuki's son)
Kamatari Fujiwara
as Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)
Chikako Hosokawa
as Shingo's wife