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Composition Class
Film / 1938

Composition Class

Directed by Kajirō Yamamoto
Drama

★ 6.8/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Hideko TakamineMasako Masaru KodakaMinoru Shiro MizutaniMitsuo Musei TokugawaFather Nijiko KiyokawaMother Osamu TakizawaTeacher Ranko AkagiThe teacher's wife Masao MishimaTanno-san Noriko HonmaAunt Kumeko OtowaThe second wife Takahiro YamagataUmemoto-san Toshiko ItōAunt

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