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Wife! Be Like a Rose! has the distinction of being the first Japanese talkie to receive a commercial U.S. release. Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 7, 2006
Wife! Be Like A Rose! appeared in a shortened version under the title Kimiko for a sadly too-brief run in New York in 1937, a release that’s famous for the negative reviews it garnered, above all from the New York Times critic Frank S. Nugent (yes, the same man who went on to write screenplays for John Ford).
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 ...
Be Like a Rose! is a very sombre affair that almost borders on too difficult to watch at times due to the heightened level of inescapable sadness that these characters are forced to endure. It highlights one of the more uncomfortable narratives in a non-violent domestic drama, the existence of a second family and the lengths that people go to ...
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 ...
Aug 19, 2023 · Film #81 in Summer of the Red Sun- Celebrating 125 Years of Japanese Cinema I don’t think I got this. It never felt like it really got going. Just it was, we were in the final 20 minutes. Sachiko Chiba was a delight and held my attention but all the men were complete rubes, and both the “mothers” felt restricted in their agency. At one point Kimiko (Chiba) says how the runaway father is ...
Wife! Be Like a Rose!: Directed by Mikio Naruse. With Sachiko Chiba, Yuriko Hanabusa, Toshiko Itô, Setsuko Horikoshi. When she reaches adulthood, a precocious young woman sets out to find her biological father, who, as her mother tells her, abandoned them for another woman.
