Tsuma yo bara no yo ni (1935)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Mikio Naruse

Writers:

Minoru Nakano (play)
Mikio Naruse (adaptation)

Release Date:

12 April 1937 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Based On Play

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Sadao Maruyama	...	Yamamoto Shunsaku
Tomoko Ito	...	Etsuko
Sachiko Chiba	...	Kimiko
Yuriko Hanabusa	...	Oyuki
Setsuko Horikoshi	...	Shizuko
Kaoru Ito	...	Kenichi
Kamatari Fujiwara	...	Shingo
Chikako Hosokawa	...	Shingo's wife
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Heihachiro Okawa

Also Known As:

Kimiko (USA)
Wife! Be Like a Rose!

Runtime:

74 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Sony PCL

Trivia:

This was possibly the first fictional feature film from Japan to be distributed in the United States, under the name "Wife, Be Like a Rose!"

Great and sweet

A very dear film by the young Naruse Mikio, and the theme is what it so often is in the great Japanese cinema of the 1930s, 40s and 50s: the heart wants what it wants. The lovely daughter is played by Chiba Sachiko, and she would later marry Naruse. The wonderful Japanese actor Maruyama Sadao plays the father. Maruyama would later be exterminated in the U.S. terror bombing of Hiroshima.