Composition Class
Aug 21 1938
•1h 27m
•Drama
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
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Hideko Takamine
Masako
Masaru Kodaka
Minoru
Shiro Mizutani
Mitsuo
Musei Tokugawa
Father
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