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.

Cast

Hideko Takamine

Masako

Masaru Kodaka

Minoru

Shiro Mizutani

Mitsuo

Musei Tokugawa

Father

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Mother