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.

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  Mikio Naruse

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  Sachiko Chiba
  Kimiko Yamamoto
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  Yuriko Hanabusa
  Oyuki
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  Toshiko Itō
  Etsuko Yamamoto
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  Setsuko Horikoshi
  Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
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  Sadao Maruyama
  Shunsaku Yamamoto
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  Heihachirō Ōkawa
  Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
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  Kaoru Itō
  Kenichi (Oyuki's son)
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  Kamatari Fujiwara
  Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)
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  Chikako Hosokawa
  Shingo's wife