Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1981)

  • NR
  • 02/23/1981 (DE)
  • Drama
  • 1h 14m

Overview

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.

Mikio Naruse

Director, Writer

Cast

Sachiko Chiba's headshot

Sachiko Chiba

Kimiko Yamamoto
Yuriko Hanabusa's headshot

Yuriko Hanabusa

Oyuki
Toshiko Itō's headshot

Toshiko Itō

Etsuko Yamamoto
Setsuko Horikoshi's headshot

Setsuko Horikoshi

Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
Sadao Maruyama's headshot

Sadao Maruyama

Shunsaku Yamamoto
Heihachirō Ōkawa's headshot

Heihachirō Ōkawa

Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
Kaoru Itō's headshot

Kaoru Itō

Kenichi (Oyuki's son)
Kamatari Fujiwara's headshot

Kamatari Fujiwara

Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)

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