Composition Class (1938)

Composition Class (1938)

Release Date: 1938, August 21
Directors: Kajirō Yamamoto
Countries: Japan
Production: Toho Eiga, Toho Eiga
Cast: Noriko Honma, Masao Mishima, Kumeko Otowa, Hideko Takamine, Ranko Akagi, Osamu Takizawa, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Shiro Mizutani, Musei Tokugawa, Masaru Kodaka, Toshiko Itō, Takahiro Yamagata

Overview:

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.