Battle of Roses

1950 Japanese film

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[a]

Distributed by| Shochiku

Release date

* 28 October 1950 (1950-10-28) (Japan)[2][3]

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

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* 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

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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

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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.[1]

## References

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1. ^ Wild, Peter (2014). Akira Kurosawa. Reaktion Books. p. 140\. ISBN 9781780233437.
2. ^ a b "薔薇合戦 (Battle of Roses)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 January 2021.
3. ^ a b "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

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* Battle of Roses at IMDb

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Films directed by Mikio Naruse

* Flunky, Work Hard! (1931)
* No Blood Relation (1932)
* Apart from You (1933)
* Every-Night Dreams (1933)
* Street Without End (1934)
* Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935)
* Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
* The Girl in the Rumor (1935)
* Morning's Tree-Lined Street (1936)
* Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938)
* The Whole Family Works (1939)
* Sincerity (1939)
* Travelling Actors (1940)
* Hideko the Bus Conductor (1941)
* The Song Lantern (1943)
* Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka (1950)
* Battle of Roses (1950)
* Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
* Dancing Girl (1951)
* Repast (1951)
* Mother (1952)
* Lightning (1952)
* Husband and Wife (1953)
* Wife (1953)
* Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953)
* Sound of the Mountain (1954)
* Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
* Floating Clouds (1955)
* Sudden Rain (1956)
* A Wife's Heart (1956)
* Flowing (1956)
* Untamed (1957)
* Anzukko (1958)
* Summer Clouds (1958)
* When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
* Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960)
* The Approach of Autumn (1960)
* As a Wife, As a Woman (1961)
* A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
* Yearning (1964)
* The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
* Scattered Clouds (1967)

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