No Regrets for Our Youth
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| No Regrets for Our Youth | |
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 Japanese movie poster |
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| Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
| Produced by | Keiji Matsuzaki |
| Written by | Eijirō Hisaita Akira Kurosawa Keiji Matsuzaki |
| Starring | Setsuko Hara Susumu Fujita Denjirō Ōkōchi |
| Music by | Tadashi Hattori |
| Distributed by | Toho Company Ltd. |
| Release date(s) | October 29, 1946 |
| Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
No Regrets for Our Youth (わが青春に悔なし Waga seishun ni kuinashi, aka No Regrets for My Youth) is a Japanese film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1946. It is based on the Takigawa incident of 1933.
The film stars Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, and Denjirō Ōkōchi. Fujita's character was inspired by the real-life Hotsumi Ozaki, who assisted the famous Soviet spy Richard Sorge and so became the only Japanese citizen to suffer the death penalty for treason during World War Two.
The film is in black-and-white and runs 110 minutes.
[edit] Plot
The movie begins in 1933. Students at the University at Takikawa protest against the Japanese invasion of Chinese Manchuria. Prominent professor Yagihara (Denjiro Okochi) is relieved of his post because of his leftist views against fascism. The professor’s daughter Yukie (Setsuko Hara) has fallen in love with one of her father’s students, Ryukichi Noge (Susumu Fujita). During an anti-militarist student protest, Noge is arrested and jailed for three years. When Noge is released, he tells the professor and his daughter that he is going to China to work against war. Yukie tells her parents she wishes to start a new life herself, and she leaves home for Tokyo. For three years in Tokyo, Yukie works meaningless jobs to get by. She then runs into Itokawa, another of the professor's former students, and learns Noge is in Tokyo. She finds Noge and they lived together. Noge is arrested and dies in jail. Yukie brings his ashes to his parents, and tells them she is his wife. She stays with his parents, who are scorned and harassed in their village, and works the rice fields with them. At the end of the war, professor Yagihara is re-instated and Noge is honored for his anti-war efforts. The movie ends with Yukie going back to work on the farm.
[edit] External links
- No Regrets for Our Youth at the Internet Movie Database
- No Regrets for Our Youth at Allmovie
- No Regrets for Our Youth overview at Rotten Tomatoes
- No Regrets for Our Youth (Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database
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