Composition Class

Story

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.

Director

Kajirō Yamamoto

Writers

Masako Toyoda, Chiio Kimura

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

Release date

21 August 1938

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Hideko Takamine

  Masako

• Masaru Kodaka

  Minoru

• Shiro Mizutani

  Mitsuo

• 

  Musei Tokugawa

  Father

• 

  Nijiko Kiyokawa

  Mother

• 

  Osamu Takizawa

  Teacher

• Ranko Akagi

  The teacher's wife

• 

  Masao Mishima

  Tanno-san

• 

  Noriko Honma

  Aunt

• 

  Kumeko Otowa

  The second wife

• Takahiro Yamagata

  Umemoto-san

• Toshiko Itō

  Aunt