Composition Class (1938)
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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.
- Date of release
- 1938-08-21
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Kajirō Yamamoto
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
Composition Class is a 1938 Japanese drama film directed by Kajirō Yamamoto and starring Hideko Takamine in a child acting role. Akira Kurosawa, then the apprentice of Kajirō Yamamoto, is credited as the film's chief assistant director.
Production
Composition Class is based on a 1937 collection of the childhood autobiographical essays of Masako Toyoda.
Akira Kurosawa writes that the role of "chief assistant director" entailed second-unit directing as well as film editing and dubbing.
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