Battle of Roses
Appearance
Battle of Roses | |
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薔薇合戦 | |
Directed by | Mikio Naruse |
Written by |
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Produced by | Shigeki Sugiyama |
Cinematography | Haruo Takeno |
Edited by | Hisashi Sagara |
Music by | Seiichi Suzuki |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Shochiku |
Release date | |
Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
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]
Cast
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ 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]
References
[edit]- ^ Wild, Peter (2014). Akira Kurosawa. Reaktion Books. p. 140. ISBN 9781780233437.
- ^ a b "薔薇合戦 (Battle of Roses)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- ^ a b "薔薇合戦 (Battle of Roses)" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- ^ Russell, Catherine (2008). The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity. Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4290-8.
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