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?
00:07:33 He may be doing this behind that woman´s back.
00:09:58 Don´t lie to yourself.
00:12:34 But I have promised...
00:15:23 That´s pretty.
00:17:31 ... in perfect harmony.
00:19:24 But men are still better than women.
00:21:31 I have even more.
00:24:05 This is enough.
00:27:35 He must be here on urgent business.
00:30:31 There´s English too.
00:35:54 What does she do?
00:40:37 You may go now.
00:44:00 You´ll understand when you grow up.
00:46:41 No. I can´t.
00:49:12 "Rising early, he fed his poor mother".
00:52:37 I blame myself constantly.
00:56:40 I don´t think so.
00:59:18 Right?
01:02:36 That wasn´t a taxi.
01:06:31 Father, would you like to change clothes?
01:10:02 Tell me. What´s wrong with Etsuko?
02:00:03 every month.
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 line02:00:03
Production Record
DirectorMikio Naruse
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes561