Battle of Roses
1950 Japanese film
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Battle of Roses (Japanese: 薔薇合戦, romanized: Bara kassen) is a 1950 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on the pre-war novel Bara kassen by Fumio Niwa.[2][3]
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Directed byMikio Naruse
Written by
- Motosada Nishiki
- Fumio Niwa {novel)
Produced byShigeki Sugiyama
CinematographyHaruo Takeno
| Battle of Roses | |
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| 薔薇合戦 | |
| Directed by | Mikio Naruse |
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| Produced by | Shigeki Sugiyama |
| Cinematography | Haruo Takeno |
| Edited by | Hisashi Sagara |
| Music by | Seiichi Suzuki |
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| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Cast
- Kuniko Miyake
- Setsuko Wakayama
- Yōko Katsuragi
- Kōji Tsuruta
- Tōru Abe
- Mitsuo Nagata
- Yōko Wakasugi
- Shirō Ōsaka
- Noriko Sengoku
- Hanshiro Iwai
- Eitarō Shindō
- Toshiko Ayukawa
- Haruo Inoue
- Shigeo Shizuyama
- Hiroshi Aoyama
Reception
Naruse biographer Catherine Russell rated Battle of Roses a lesser work by its director, which seemed "to have been hastily put together, with some surprisingly abrupt editing and a rather poor script […] drawing on the sensationalism of the “liberated” woman.[4]
Notes
- The Eiga Geijutsu Kyōkai ("Film Art Association") was a film production company founded by Naruse, Akira Kurosawa, Kajirō Yamamoto and Senkichi Taniguchi, which existed from 1948 to 1951.[1]
