Composition Class
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.
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
