Battle of Roses

Battle of Roses 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