Composition Class (1938)

Release Date: 1938-08-21
Runtime: 1h 27min
Production Company: Toho Eiga
Production Country: Japan
Director: Kajirō Yamamoto

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.