No Regrets for Our Youth
Akira Kurosawa / JP, 1946 / 110 min.
Kurosawa’s first post-war fiction film, with Ozu’s star Setsuko Hara in the lead role. A worldly character study of a liberated young woman who comes into conflict with the militaristic Japan of the 1930s. With striking mobile, expressionist camerawork.
Freed from the strict censorship imposed by the Japanese government in the 1930s and during World War II, Kurosawa paints an intriguing portrait of a young woman who becomes a vehement critic of militaristic Japan.
Yukie is the daughter of a privileged university professor whose career is jeopardised when he speaks out against the aggressive urge for expansion propagated by the Japanese empire in the 1930s, leading to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria (China) and the subsequent imposition of a reign of terror.
Screening of a 35mm copy (Japan Foundation).
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Director
Akira Kurosawa
Production year
1946
Country
JP
Original title
Waga seishun ni kuinashi
Length
110 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
ENG
Format
35mm
Part of
Akira Kurosawa
After an absence of more than 30 years, Eye is bringing the films of one of Japan’s greatest filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa, to the big screen again, some in digitally restored versions. In his films, Kurosawa blends Japanese history and culture with literary and cinematic influences from the West.
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