Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

Original title

妻よ薔薇のやうに

Directed by

Mikio Naruse

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 14m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman's father has a second wife in the countryside. She goes to meet her and reconsider what family means.

wrybittersweetmelancholicwhimsicalgentleunderstatedquietobservational

What happens

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. It was voted "The Best Japanese Film of the Year" in 1935 by critics of the prestigious film magazine Kinema Junpo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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