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.
Sachiko Chibaas Kimiko Yamamoto
Toshiko Itōas Etsuko Yamamoto
Setsuko Horikoshias Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
Sadao Maruyamaas Shunsaku Yamamoto
Kaoru Itōas Kenichi (Oyuki's son)
