Tsuma Yo Bara no Yau ni
Wife Be Like a Rose
(c)1935 Toho Co., Ltd.
(c)1935 Toho Co., Ltd.
- Release Date
- March, 21st, 1935
- Running Time
- 74 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Monochrome
- Screening Format
- -
- Screen Size
- Standard (1:1.37)
[ Directed by ]
[ Cast ]
- CHIBA Sachiko ── YAMAMOTO Kimiko
- MARUYAMA Sadao ── Shunsaku, her father
- HANABUSA Yuriko ── Oyuki
[ Staff ]
- NARUSE Mikio ── Screenplay
- NAKANO Minoru ── Based on the play by
- SUZUKI Hiroshi ── Cinematography
- ITO Noboru ── Music
- KUBO Kazuo ── Art Director
[ Production Company ]
P.C.L
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
TOHO
[ Story ]
A film adaptation of the play Futari tsuma ("Two Wives"), written by NAKANO Minoru. When Kimiko pays her estranged father a visit ahead of her upcoming marriage, she ends up discovering the truth behind the remittances being sent to her mother every month. In addition to its eye-catching costumes (the shirt-and-tie outfit Kimiko wears while doing housework is particularly memorable), the film contains a wealth of unusual shots, such as a long take that captures the house interior through a wisteria trellis. The work is also historically significant for having been the first Japanese film to be released theatrically in the United States, under the title Kimiko in 1937.
Written by MIYAMOTO Noriaki
Translated by Adam Sutherland
[ Contact (International) ]
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