Battle of Roses

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]

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

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

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]