No Regrets for Our Youth
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わが青春に悔なし No Regrets for Our Youth |
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Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
Produced by | Keiji Matsuzaki |
Written by | Eijirô Hisaita Akira Kurosawa Keiji Matsuzaki |
Starring | Setsuko Hara Susumu Fujita Denjirô Ôkôchi |
Music by | Tadashi Hattori |
Distributed by | Toho Company Ltd. |
Release date(s) | 29 October 1946 |
Running time | 110 min. |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
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No Regrets for Our Youth is the most common English translation of the title of the Japanese film わが青春に悔なし (Waga seishun ni kuinashi), written and directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1946. It is based on the Takikawa incident of 1933.
The film stars Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, and Denjirô Ôkôchi. 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] Also known as
- No Regrets for My Youth
[edit] External links
- No Regrets for Our Youth at the Internet Movie Database
- No Regrets for Our Youth at All Movie Guide
- No Regrets for Our Youth overview at Rotten Tomatoes
Japanese Cinema | ||
Films by Akira Kurosawa | ||
1940s | Sanshiro Sugata | The Most Beautiful | Sanshiro Sugata Part II | The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail | Those Who Make Tomorrow | No Regrets for Our Youth | One Wonderful Sunday | Drunken Angel | The Quiet Duel | Stray Dog | |
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1950s | Scandal | Rashomon | The Idiot | Ikiru | Seven Samurai | I Live in Fear | The Throne of Blood | The Lower Depths | The Hidden Fortress | |
1960s | The Bad Sleep Well | Yojimbo | Sanjuro | High and Low | Red Beard | |
1970s | Dodesukaden | Dersu Uzala | |
1980s | Kagemusha | Ran | |
1990s | Dreams | Rhapsody in August | Madadayo |