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Japanese Film Festival: Wife! Be Like a Rose! (妻よ薔薇のように)
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Sat 1 Nov 11:00 AM
Arc Cinema
Allocated Seating
All Ages
74 Mins | Japanese Film Festival November
1935 | 35mm | JPN | D: Mikio Naruse| Japanese with English subtitles
Kimiko, a modern Tokyo woman, lives with her grieving mother Etsuko, who still mourns the husband who left her for a former geisha 15 years ago. As Kimiko’s wedding nears, her fiancé’s father insists on meeting her estranged father, prompting her solo journey to the countryside. Armed with her mother’s bitter stories, Kimiko braces for confrontation, but the welcome she receives is unexpectedly warm.
Directed by Mikio Naruse and based on the shinpa (contemporary theatre) play Two Wives by Minoru Nakano, Wife! Be Like a Rose! is a charming and humorous exploration of marriage and familial duty. The first Japanese talkie screened in New York and among the first Japanese films to be theatrically released in the United States, this remarkable comedy-drama stands as a hallmark of Naruse’s work and was voted Kinema Junpo’s Best Japanese Film of 1935.
Kimiko, a modern Tokyo woman, lives with her grieving mother Etsuko, who still mourns the husband who left her for a former geisha 15 years ago. As Kimiko’s wedding nears, her fiancé’s father insists on meeting her estranged father, prompting her solo journey to the countryside. Armed with her mother’s bitter stories, Kimiko braces for confrontation, but the welcome she receives is unexpectedly warm.
Directed by Mikio Naruse and based on the shinpa (contemporary theatre) play Two Wives by Minoru Nakano, Wife! Be Like a Rose! is a charming and humorous exploration of marriage and familial duty. The first Japanese talkie screened in New York and among the first Japanese films to be theatrically released in the United States, this remarkable comedy-drama stands as a hallmark of Naruse’s work and was voted Kinema Junpo’s Best Japanese Film of 1935.
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