No Regrets for Our Youth
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A humanistic drama tracing one woman's coming-of-age through political awakening and romantic entanglement amid the repression and upheaval of 1930s-40s Japan.
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.
Essence
Ensemble
Setsuko Hara
Yukie Yagihara
Susumu Fujita
Ruykichi Noge
Denjirō Ōkōchi
Professor Yagihara
Haruko Sugimura
Madame Noge
Eiko Miyoshi
Madame Yagihara
Akitake Kōno
Itokawa
Kokuten Kōdō
Mr. Noge
Takashi Shimura
Police Commissioner 'Poison Strawberry' Dokuichigo
Taizō Fukami
Minister of Education
Masao Shimizu
Professor Hakozaki
Haruo Tanaka
Student
Kazu Hikari
Detective
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