Skip to content
HOLLYWOOD METRICS
HomeAboutCraftNewsAnalyticsScriptsBooksPricingAPIMCP
Catalog/Drama/Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Wife! Be Like a Rose! poster
B
Strong
MASTER SCORE 66.2 / 100
1935·Drama·1h 14m

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.

Above the Line
Mikio Naruse·DirectorMikio Naruse·WriterMinoru Nakano·Theatre PlayHiroshi Suzuki·Director of PhotographyNoboru Itō·Original Music ComposerKôichi Iwashita·Editor
Cast
Sachiko Chiba·Kimiko YamamotoYuriko Hanabusa·OyukiToshiko Itō·Etsuko YamamotoSetsuko Horikoshi·Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)Sadao Maruyama·Shunsaku YamamotoHeihachirō Ōkawa·Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)Kaoru Itō·Kenichi (Oyuki's son)Kamatari Fujiwara·Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)Chikako Hosokawa·Shingo's wife
Full Crew
(8 credits)
Directing· 1
Mikio Naruse·Director
Writing· 2
Mikio Naruse·WriterMinoru Nakano·Theatre Play
Camera· 1
Hiroshi Suzuki·Director of Photography
Editing· 1
Kôichi Iwashita·Editor
Sound & Music· 2
Noboru Itō·Original Music ComposerKoichi Sugii·Sound Recordist
Art & Design· 1
Kazuo Kubo·Art Direction
By the Numbers
66.2
OF 100
Master Score
7.5
OF 10
IMDb
—
CRITICS
Rotten Tomatoes
—
Worldwide Gross
0
Oscar Wins
Where to Watch

THE AVAILABILITY MAP

The canonical record of where this film lives across the streaming map.

Provider Index In Progress

Streaming, rental, and purchase availability for this title is being ingested from the TMDB watch-providers feed and will appear here once the next catalog refresh runs. Until then, the canonical source links below remain the fastest route.

Find on TMDB
Poster DNA

THE VISUAL DECONSTRUCTION

A bespoke vision agent's reading of the design language behind Wife! Be Like a Rose!'s key art.

Dominant Palette
3 colors
#262626
#A6A6A6
#6B6B6B
Mood
Romantic, Nostalgic
Composition
Layered
Era
1930s
Visual Style
Photographic

“A black and white image depicts a man and a woman. The man is seated in the foreground, playing an acoustic guitar, while the woman stands behind and to his rig”

romancedrama
Key Elements
Acoustic GuitarHatRed Rose
Atmosphere
Muted
Color Mood
Neutral
Setting
Indoor
Design Score
7/10
More Like This

THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Neighboring films in the catalog's similarity graph.

Keep Going

THREE WAYS DEEPER

Auteur
AUT
MORE BY MIKIO NARUSE

Every catalog entry where Mikio Naruse is credited as director.

Open
Family
GEN
MORE DRAMA

Top-ranked films inside drama, sorted by master score.

Open
Era
DEC
MORE FROM THE 1930S

The best films of the 1930s, ranked across every available metric.

Open
View on IMDbView on TMDBCatalog
HOLLYWOOD METRICS

The definitive mathematical oracle for cinematic success and creative script intelligence.

74,000+ Films100 Years1.1M+ Reviews
PRODUCT
  • Dashboard
  • Pricing
  • Script Analysis
  • Watch the Demo
  • The Red List
  • News
  • Analytics
  • API
  • MCP Connector
COMPANY
  • About
  • Track Record
  • Trust & Script Privacy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
CONNECT
  • ▶YouTube
  • ◉Instagram
  • ♪TikTok
  • @Threads
  • fFacebook
Get Started Free →
© 2026 Hollywood Metrics. All rights reserved.Powered by bespoke agents and autonomous agentic workflows