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Battle of Roses
薔薇合戦
Directed by	Mikio Naruse
Written by	Motosada Nishiki Fumio Niwa {novel)
Produced by	Shigeki Sugiyama
Cinematography	Haruo Takeno
Edited by	Hisashi Sagara
Music by	Seiichi Suzuki
Production companies	Shochiku Eiga Geijutsu Kyōkai
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	28 October 1950 (1950-10-28) (Japan)
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.

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.

Notes

1. 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.

References

1. Wild, Peter (2014). Akira Kurosawa. Reaktion Books. p. 140. ISBN 9781780233437.
2. ^ "薔薇合戦 (Battle of Roses)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 January 2021.
3. ^ "薔薇合戦 (Battle of Roses)" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
4. Russell, Catherine (2008). The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity. Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4290-8.

External links

• Battle of Roses at IMDb

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