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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 [1][2] and one of Naruse's earliest sound films. Wife!
May 22, 2018 · Be Like a Rose. A surprisingly emotionally complex film, perhaps the best way to describe it would be a comic family tragedy. We start with a very Modern Young Woman (Sachiko Chiba) leaving her office and teasing her fiancé in a way that leaves him constantly befuddled and confused. Nevertheless, she has decided to marry the big lug, as he ...
Dec 23, 2017 · Wife! Be Like a Rose!, 1935. December 23, 2017 (December 28, 2017) acquarello. In Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano cites the contradictory delineation between urban and provincial life in Mikio Naruse’s Wife! Be Like a Rose! as an example of interwar Japan’s amorphously defined domestic and social ...
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 [1] [2] and one of Naruse's earliest sound films. Wife!
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Kimiko, whose parents have divorced, hopes to gain her father's permission to marry. Despite reports to the contrary, Kimiko finds her father's new spouse to be a better wife than her own mother, a traditional, silently suffering, but cold woman. The new wife, an ex-geisha, has secretly been supporting both Kimiko and her mother by sending money.
Sachiko Chiba (千葉早智子) ... Kimiko YamamotoSadao Maruyama (丸山定夫) ... Shunsaku Yamamoto(Kimiko's father)Yuriko Hanabusa (英百合子) ... OyukiTomoko Itō (伊藤智子) ... Etsuko Yamamoto (Kimiko's mother)Naruse had begun directing at Shōchiku, the home studio of Yasujirō Ozu. Ozu was an early supporter of Naruse's work, but Shiro Kido, the head of the studio, criticized his similarity to the older director, telling Naruse he didn't need two Ozus. With this lack of support from the studio, in 1934 Naruse left Shōchiku for P.C.L., later Tōhōstudio. W...
In 1937 Wife! Be Like a Rose! achieved another long-held goal of the Japanese film industry by playing successfully in the United States. It was titled Kimiko during its run in New York. Wife! Be Like a Rose! was not the first Japanese film to have a release in the United States, Teinosuke Kinugasa's Crossroads having been shown in 1932 under the t...
Okubo, Kiyoaki (trans. to English by Guy Yasko). (2005). "Kimiko in New York", originally in Shigehiko Hasumi & Sadao Yamane (eds.), Naruse Mikio no sekai e [Into the World of Mikio Naruse] (Japan:...Richie, Donald (2001). A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History. Tokyo: Kodansha International. pp. 60, 127, 128, 286-287. ISBN 4-7700-2682-X."妻よ薔薇のやうに" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2011-03-17.1937-04-26 "Kimiko". Time.Hobe. 1937-04-14 "Kimiko". Variety.Nugent, Frank S. 1937-04-13 "Kimiko (1937) THE SCREEN; At the Filmarte" in The New York Times.Van Doren, Mark. (10 April 1937) "Japanese Triangle" in Nation.Build 04797e8 (7895) 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.
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Directed by Mikio Naruse. With Sadao Maruyama, Tomoko Ito, Sachiko Chiba. Japan, 1935, 35mm, black & white, 73 min. Japanese with English subtitles. Considered by many to be Naruse's pre-war masterpiece, the film was also the first Japanese "talkie" to be exhibited commercially in the United States. Kimiko, a "modern-thinking" office worker ...
