No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

Director: Akira Kurosawa

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.

Cast

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