Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

Directed by Mikio Naruse

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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.

Genre: Drama

Language: ja

Production

Cinematographer: Hiroshi Suzuki · Composer: Noboru Itō · Editor: Kôichi Iwashita

Production: P.C.L. Eiga Seisaku-jo

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