LAST SHOWN 02/21/2026
Sat Feb 21
WIFE! BE LIKE A ROSE! on Nitrate
Presented in partnership with Eastman Museum, L.A. Print courtesy of the George Eastman Museum, lent by Wesley Greene | ‘American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival 2026’
- DIRECTOR
- Mikio Naruse
SYNOPSIS
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.
- LANGUAGE
- In Japanese with English subtitles
