Wife! Be Like a Rose!

1h 14m
Drama
7

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.

Cast

Sachiko Chiba
Kimiko Yamamoto
Yuriko Hanabusa
Oyuki
Toshiko Itō
Etsuko Yamamoto
Setsuko Horikoshi
Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
Sadao Maruyama
Shunsaku Yamamoto
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
Kaoru Itō
Kenichi (Oyuki's son)
Kamatari Fujiwara
Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)
Chikako Hosokawa
Shingo's wife

Crew

Mikio Naruse
Director, Writer
Kôichi Iwashita
Editor
Hiroshi Suzuki
Director of Photography
Koichi Sugii
Sound Recordist
Noboru Itō
Original Music Composer
Minoru Nakano
Theatre Play
Kazuo Kubo
Art Direction

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