Wife! Be Like a Rose!

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.

Director: Mikio Naruse

Cast: Sachiko Chiba, Yuriko Hanabusa, Toshiko Itō, Setsuko Horikoshi, Sadao Maruyama, Heihachirō Ōkawa, Kaoru Itō, Kamatari Fujiwara

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