Wife! Be Like a Rose!

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.

Cast

Sachiko Chiba

Kimiko Yamamoto

Yuriko Hanabusa

Oyuki

N/A

Toshiko Itō

Etsuko Yamamoto

Setsuko Horikoshi

Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)

Sadao Maruyama

Shunsaku Yamamoto

Heihachirō Ōkawa

Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)

N/A

Kaoru Itō

Kenichi (Oyuki's son)

Kamatari Fujiwara

Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)

N/A

Chikako Hosokawa

Shingo's wife