Movie
No Regrets for Our Youth
Overview
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own path in pre- and post-WWII Japan.
Details
- Release date
- 1946-10-29
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- TOHO
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Setsuko Hara as Yukie Yagihara
- Susumu Fujita as Ruykichi Noge
- Denjirō Ōkōchi as Professor Yagihara
- Haruko Sugimura as Madame Noge
- Eiko Miyoshi as Madame Yagihara
- Akitake Kōno as Itokawa
- Kokuten Kōdō as Mr. Noge
- Takashi Shimura as Police Commissioner 'Poison Strawberry' Dokuichigo
- Taizō Fukami as Minister of Education
- Masao Shimizu as Professor Hakozaki
- Haruo Tanaka as Student
- Kazu Hikari as Detective
Crew
- Akira Kurosawa - Director
- Akira Kurosawa - Writer
- Eijiro Hisaita - Writer
- Keiji Matsuzaki - Writer
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