Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
1h 14m
Running Time
August 15, 1935Release Date
Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
1h 14m
Running Time
August 15, 1935Release Date
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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.
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Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Japanese: 妻よ薔薇のやうに, romanized: Tsuma yo bara no yô ni), also titled Kimiko, is a 1935 Japanese comedy drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on the shinpa play Futari tsuma (二人妻, lit. Two Wives) by Minoru Nakano and one of Naruse's earliest sound films. Wife! Be Like a Rose! was one of the first Japanese films to see a theatrical release in the United States.