Composition Class

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.

• Kajirō YamamotoDirector
• Chiio KimuraWriter

• 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