Battle of RosesCast 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 AoyamaReceptionNaruse 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.