Composition Class
Composition Class
Drama

Composition Class

1938
87 min
6.8
68.0%
User Score
(8 votes)

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.

DIRECTED BY

Kajirō Yamamoto

STARRING

Hideko Takamine, Masaru Kodaka, Shiro Mizutani, Musei Tokugawa, Nijiko Kiyokawa

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Cast

Hideko Takamine

Hideko Takamine

Masako

Masaru Kodaka

Minoru

Shiro Mizutani

Mitsuo

Musei Tokugawa

Musei Tokugawa

Father

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Mother

Osamu Takizawa

Osamu Takizawa

Teacher

Ranko Akagi

The teacher's wife

Masao Mishima

Masao Mishima

Tanno-san

Noriko Honma

Noriko Honma

Aunt

Kumeko Otowa

Kumeko Otowa

The second wife

Takahiro Yamagata

Umemoto-san

Toshiko Itō

Aunt