Battle of Roses

{{Infobox film }} Battle of Roses (薔薇合戦) is a 1950 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on the pre-war novel Bara kassen by Fumio Niwa.
 * name          = Battle of Roses
 * native_name   = 薔薇合戦
 * image         = Koji Tsuruta - Setsuko Wakayama in Bara gassen (1950).jpg
 * caption       =
 * director      = Mikio Naruse
 * producer      = Shigeki Sugiyama
 * writer        = {{ubl|Motosada Nishiki|Fumio Niwa {novel)}}
 * music         = Seiichi Suzuki
 * cinematography = Haruo Takeno
 * editing       = Hisashi Sagara
 * studio        = {{ubl|Shochiku|Eiga Geijutsu Kyōkai{{efn|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. }}}}
 * distributor   = Shochiku
 * released      = {{Film date|1950|10|28|Japan|df=y|ref1=  }}
 * runtime       = 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.