[ENG] Composition Class 綴方教室 (1938) Director Kajiro Yamamoto, Assistant Director Akira Kurosawa
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Film: Composition Class / Lessons in Essay 綴方教室
Director: Kajiro Yamamoto 山本 嘉次郎
Assistant Director / Cinematography: Akira Kurosawa 黒沢 明
Year: 1938
Studio: Toho Company, Ltd.
Cast: Hideko Takamine (Masako), Masaru Kodaka (Minoru), Shiro Mizutani (Mitsuo), Musei Tokugawa (Father), Nijiko Kiyokawa (Mother), Osamu Takizawa (Teacher), Ranko Akagi (Teacher's Wife), Masao Mishima (Tanno-san), Noriko Honma (Aunt), Kumeko Otowa (Second Wife), Takahiro Yamagata (Umemoto-san), Tomoko Ito (Aunt).
This film appears on Kurosawa's Top 100 Favorite Films (#17):
Kurosawa's Quote: Mr. Yamakaji (Mr. Kajiro Yamamoto) was a really good teacher. At that time, when we all were terribly busy, Yama-san (Mr. Yamamoto) made me do everything for him. To be honest, I was not very pleased by it. But his wife once said me; Do you know? My husband was very delighted. He said, Mr. Kurosawa is now competent to do really everything! Only then I realised that Mr. Yamamoto has been teaching me all things one by one, by making me do everything - to edit, write, costume and make props. THAT MADE ME WHO I AM NOW. I am truly grateful
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????Atom-Bombed Children in Hiroshima (1952)????Docudrama???? Starring Nobuko Otowa
PLOT:
Takako Ishikawa (Nobuko Otowa), is a teacher on an island in the inland sea off the coast of Hiroshima after World War II. During her summer holiday, she goes back to Hiroshima to visit the graves of her parents & younger sister, who were killed in the bomb attack. She sees a beggar & realizes he is a man called Iwakichi (Osamu Takizawa), who used to work for her parents, now burned on the face & partially blind. She visits him at his home & asks about his family. His grandson, Tarō, is now in an institution. She visits the institution & finds the children barely have enough to eat. Takako offers to take Iwakichi & his grandson back to the island, but he refuses, running away.
Takako then goes on to visit Natsue Morikawa, who was another teacher at a kindergarten where she used to teach, & is now a midwife. Natsue has been rendered sterile by the atomic bomb blast & she is discussing adopting a child. Natsue & Takako visit the site of the kindergarten, which is now destroyed, & Takako decides to visit the students of the kindergarten.
The father of the first student she visits, Sanpei, has suddenly been taken ill from a radiation-related illness & dies just before she arrives. Another one of the students is terminally ill & dying in a church where many people with bomb-related injuries are gathered.
After staying the night in Natsu's house, she then goes to visit another student, Heita. His sister (Miwa Satō), who has an injured leg, is just about to get married, & Takako dines with her. She talks to Heita's older brother Kōji (Jūkichi Uno), about the people who died or were injured in the war.
She returns to Iwakichi's house & asks him again to let her take Tarō back to the island. At first he refuses, then his wife persuades him to let Takako take Tarō. However, Tarō refuses to leave his grandfather. The grandfather sets Tarō down for a meal, buys him new shoes, & sends him to Takako with a letter. Then he sets his house on fire. He survives the fire, but is badly burned & eventually dies. Tarō and Takako go back to the island, carrying Iwakichi's ashes.
????Atom-Bombed Children in Hiroshima????is a 1952 Japanese feature film directed by Kaneto Shindo. Screenplay by Kaneto Shindo. Music by Akira Ifukube
CAST:
Nobuko Otowa as Takako Ishikawa
Osamu Takizawa as Iwakichi
Miwa Saitō as Natsue Morikawa
Chikako Hosokawa as Setsu, Takako's mother
Masao Shimizu as Toshiaki, Takako's father
Yuriko Hanabusa as Oine
Tanie Kitabayashi as Otoyo
Tsutomu Shimomoto as Natsue's husband
Taiji Tonoyama as Owner of a ship
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