Composition Class (1938)
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.
- Released
- 1938-08-21
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kajirō Yamamoto
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 from 9 votes
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
- Ranko Akagi as The teacher's wife
- Masao Mishima as Tanno-san
- Noriko Honma as Aunt
- Kumeko Otowa as The second wife
- Takahiro Yamagata as Umemoto-san
- Toshiko Itō as Aunt