| 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 | 
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| Distributed by | Shochiku | 
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Running time  | 98 | 
| 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
- 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]
 
References
- ↑ Wild, Peter (2014). Akira Kurosawa. Reaktion Books. p. 140. ISBN 9781780233437.
 - 1 2 "薔薇合戦 (Battle of Roses)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 January 2021.
 - 1 2 "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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