Wife! Be Like a Rose!

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.

• Mikio NaruseDirector
• Mikio NaruseWriter
• Noboru ItōOriginal Music Composer

• Sachiko ChibaKimiko Yamamoto
• Yuriko HanabusaOyuki
• Toshiko ItōEtsuko Yamamoto
• Setsuko HorikoshiShizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
• Sadao MaruyamaShunsaku Yamamoto
• Heihachirō ŌkawaSeiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
• Kaoru ItōKenichi (Oyuki's son)
• Kamatari FujiwaraShingo (Kimiko's uncle)
• Chikako HosokawaShingo's wife