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.
Movie: Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Top 9 Billed Cast
Kimiko Yamamoto
Oyuki
Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
Shunsaku Yamamoto
Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)
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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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1935-08-15
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