JAPAN · 1935

Wife, Be Like a Rose

Mikio Naruse
family obligation polygamy marriage negotiation absent fathers urban life
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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.

Year1935
CountryJapan
DirectorMikio Naruse
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