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Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

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

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Sachiko ChibaSachiko ChibaKimiko Yamamoto
  • Photo of Yuriko HanabusaYuriko HanabusaOyuki
  • Photo of Toshiko ItōToshiko ItōEtsuko Yamamoto
  • Photo of Setsuko HorikoshiSetsuko HorikoshiShizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
  • Photo of Sadao MaruyamaSadao MaruyamaShunsaku Yamamoto
  • Photo of Heihachirō ŌkawaHeihachirō ŌkawaSeiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
  • Photo of Kaoru ItōKaoru ItōKenichi (Oyuki's son)
  • Photo of Kamatari FujiwaraKamatari FujiwaraShingo (Kimiko's uncle)
  • Photo of Chikako HosokawaChikako HosokawaShingo's wife

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