Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much publicized essay ends up causing the family problems and their chronic money troubles threaten Masako's further education.
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Nijiko Kiyokawa
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