No Regrets for Our Youth

In Akira Kurosawa's first film after the end of World War II, future beloved Ozu regular Setsuko Hara gives an astonishing performance as Yukie, the only female protagonist in Kurosawa's body of work and one of his strongest heroes. Transforming herself from genteel bourgeois daughter to independent social activist, Yukie traverses a tumultuous decade in Japanese history.

Japan
1946
110 minutes
Black & White
1.33:1
Japanese

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Eclipse 7: Postwar Kurosawa

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5 Discs

$55.96

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AK 100: 25 Films by Kurosawa

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25 Discs

$319.00

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Cast & Credits

Cast

Setsuko Hara: Yukie Yagihara
Susumu Fujita: Ruykichi Noge
Denjiro Okochi: Professor Yagihara
Haruko Sugimura: Madame Noge
Eiko Miyoshi: Madame Yagihara
Aritake Kono: Itokawa

Credits

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay: Eijiro Hisaita
Cinematography: Asakazu Nakai
Music: Tadashi Hattori

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Akira Kurosawa

Director

Arguably the most celebrated Japanese filmmaker of all time, Akira Kurosawa had a career that spanned from the Second World War to the early nineties and that stands as a monument of artistic, entertainment, and personal achievement. His best-known films remain his samurai epics Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, but his intimate dramas, such as Ikiru and High and Low, are just as searing. The first serious phase of Kurosawa’s career came during the postwar era, with Drunken Angel and Stray Dog, gritty dramas about people on the margins of society that featured the first notable appearances by Toshiro Mifune, the director’s longtime leading man. Kurosawa would subsequently gain international fame with Rashomon, a breakthrough in nonlinear narrative and sumptuous visuals. Following a personal breakdown in the late sixties, Kurosawa rebounded by expanding his dark brand of humanism into new stylistic territory, with films such as Kagemusha and Ran, visionary, color, epic ruminations on modern man and nature.