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    Toshiko Itô

    Characters

    Etsuko - Kimiko's mother

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    Wife! Be Like a Rose! 1935 POSTER

    Wife! Be Like a Rose!

    1935

    Japanese

    7.5

    ♡ 5

    80%

    Action

    based on play or musical

    Drama

    geisha

    gold

    marriage

    mountain

    poetry

    Mikio Naruse Mikio Naruse Director Toshiko Itô Toshiko Itô as Etsuko - Kimiko's mother Sachiko Chiba Sachiko Chiba as Kimiko Yamamoto Kamatari Fujiwara Kamatari Fujiwara as Shingo - Etsuko's brother Chikako Hosokawa Chikako Hosokawa as Shingo's wife
    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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