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.