SAT FEB 21, 2026 3:00 PM

WIFE! BE LIKE A ROSE!

$17.00 (member) ; $22.00 (general admission)

Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.

Egyptian Theatre | Presented in partnership with Eastman Museum Los Angeles. Print courtesy of the George Eastman Museum, lent by Wesley Greene.

Series co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles and The Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities

‘American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival 2026’ and ‘Mikio Naruse: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

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  • RELEASED IN: 1935
  • 74 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: Mikio Naruse

ABOUT THE FILM:

In Japanese with English subtitles.

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.

FORMAT: Nitrate

DISTRIBUTOR: Toho

COUNTRY: Japan

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