Drama · Japan · 1938 · 1h 27m

Composition Class

綴方教室

Director

Cast

Hideko Takamine as Masako Masaru Kodaka as Minoru Shiro Mizutani as Mitsuo Musei Tokugawa as Father Nijiko Kiyokawa as Mother Osamu Takizawa as Teacher

Crew

Akira Mimura — Director of Photography Kôichi Iwashita — Editor Chiio Kimura — Writer Masako Toyoda — Novel

Synopsis

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much publicized essay ends up causing the family problems and their chronic money troubles threaten Masako's further education.

Key Collaborators

Kajirō Yamamoto Director Akira Mimura Director of Photography Kôichi Iwashita Editor Chiio Kimura Writer Masako Toyoda Novel

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