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.
Director: Kajirō Yamamoto
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Hideko Takamine as Masako |
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Masaru Kodaka as Minoru |
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Shiro Mizutani as Mitsuo |
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Musei Tokugawa as Father |
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Nijiko Kiyokawa as Mother |
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Osamu Takizawa as Teacher |
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Ranko Akagi as The teacher's wife |
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Masao Mishima as Tanno-san |
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Noriko Honma as Aunt |
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Kumeko Otowa as The second wife |
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Takahiro Yamagata as Umemoto-san |
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Toshiko Itō as Aunt |
| Directing | Kajirō Yamamoto | Director |
| Writing | Masako Toyoda | Novel |
| Writing | Chiio Kimura | Writer |
| Directing | Akira Kurosawa | Assistant Director |
| Production | Nobuyoshi Morita | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Akira Mimura | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Kôichi Iwashita | Editor |
| Sound | Shigeharu Yasue | Sound Recordist |
