Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935 · 74 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 561 VOTES · DIR. Mikio Naruse
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 846 lines
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00:00:10 TOHO CO., LTD. presents a P.C.L. Production
00:04:35 Are you sure?
00:07:28 He won´t write until he can send a large sum.
00:09:52 Don´t worry about me.
00:12:19 You lost your eyesight.
00:15:12 That´s all her pupils ever bring.
00:17:19 The young father held and comforted the girl.
00:19:11 I might.
00:21:10 Do you have money? Let me see.
00:23:49 Been home?
00:27:08 Where is he, anyway?
00:30:06 O.K. by yourself?
00:34:22 Coming to my house?
00:39:24 Young Miss from Tokyo?
00:42:36 Until later.
00:46:05 It makes it all the worse.
00:48:33 "There once lived a man named Gihei".
00:51:43 I´m sorry. I had no idea.
00:55:20 "In the evening...
00:58:30 I´ll borrow him for a few days.
01:01:01 I even felt jealous of Oyuki´s children.
01:05:40 Father knows her well. He says.
01:08:31 Would you call me a cab?
01:11:24 You´re both crazy.
Cast & Characters
Sachiko Chiba
Kimiko Yamamoto
Yuriko Hanabusa
Oyuki
Toshiko Itô
Etsuko - Kimiko's mother
Setsuko Horikoshi
Shizuko - Oyuki's daughter
Chikako Hosokawa
Shingo's wife
Sadao Maruyama
Shunsaku - Kimiko's father
Heihachirô Ôkawa
Seiji - Kimiko's boyfriend
Kaoru Itô
Kenichi - Oyuki's son
Kamatari Fujiwara
Shingo - Etsuko's brother
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed846
Dialogue density11.4 lines / min
First line00:00:10
Final line01:11:24
Production Record
DirectorMikio Naruse
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes561