| No Regrets for Our Youth | |
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| Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
| Written by | Eijirō Hisaita Akira Kurosawa Keiji Matsuzaki |
| Produced by | Keiji Matsuzaki |
| Starring | Setsuko Hara Susumu Fujita Denjirō Ōkōchi |
| Cinematography | Asakazu Nakai |
| Edited by | Akira Kurosawa |
| Music by | Tadashi Hattori |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Toho Company Ltd. |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
No Regrets for Our Youth (Japanese: わが青春に悔なし, Hepburn: Waga Seishun ni Kuinashi) is a 1946 Japanese film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is based on the 1933 Takigawa incident,[1] and is considered a quintessential "democratization film", taking up many themes associated with social policy under the early Occupation of Japan.[2]
The film stars Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura and Denjirō Ōkōchi. Fujita's character was inspired by the real-life Hotsumi Ozaki, who assisted the famous Soviet spy Richard Sorge and became the only Japanese citizen to suffer the death penalty for treason during World War II. The film is in black-and-white and runs 110 minutes.[3]
- ^ Yoshimoto 2000, p. 118-119.
- ^ Standish, Isolde (2005). A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film. New York and London: Continuum. pp. 165–66. ISBN 0-8264-1790-6.
- ^ Galbraith, Stuart (1996). The Japanese Filmography: A Complete Reference to 209 Filmmakers and the Over 1250 Films Released in the United States, 1900 Through 1994. McFarland. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-7864-0032-4.