
Sayuri Tanima
2021No Regrets for Our Youth
Akira Kurosawa
Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita
Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings during a purge of anti-militarism in pre-war Kyoto. Years go by as she is courted by two of her father's former students; one a fiery leftist, the other more moderate and equable.
No Regrets for Our Youth
今ひとたびの
Heinosuke Gosho
Mieko Takamine, Ichirō Ryūzaki
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor. Over a ten-year period - from 1936 through the war - they find each other and are separated again by the events of those tumultuous days.
Once More
愛の世界:山猫とみの話
Nobuo Aoyagi
Hideko Takamine, Michiko Aikawa
A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for themselves, and are taught language, music, and sewing. While there the young girl slowly begins to form friendships and come out of her shell.
World of Love
わかれ雲
Heinosuke Gosho
Kieko Sawamura, Yōichi Numata
Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a young physician who diagnoses her illness as a mild case of pneumonia. With Masako in good hands and needing a few days to recuperate, her classmates continue their tour. Masako’s recovery, however, is hampered by her spoiled and immature nature and her determination to punish the world for the loss of her mother.
Dispersed Clouds
明日を創る人々
Hideo Sekigawa, Kajirō Yamamoto
Chieko Nakakita, Mitsue Tachibana
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, one of whom boards with the sisters and their parents. The girls' father argues with them about their strike, but finds his views changing when he himself loses his job.
Those Who Make Tomorrow