No Regrets for Our Youth is a 1946 film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is based on the Takigawa incident of 1933. The film stars Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, and Denjirō Ōkōchi. 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. The film begins in 1933. Students at the University at Takikawa protest against the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Prominent... professor Yagihara is relieved of his post because of his leftist views against fascism. The professor's daughter Yukie is courted by two of her father's students: Ryukichi Noge and Itokawa . Itokawa is safe and sensible while Noge is fiery. Yukie is eventually drawn toward Noge. Noge disappears following an anti-militarist student protest. His disappearance is the result of being arrested and he spends four years in jail.
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| Release date: | October 29, 1946 |
| Directed by: | Akira Kurosawa |
| Runtime: | 110 Minutes |
| Producer: | Keiji Matsuzaki |
| Editor: | Akira Kurosawa |
| Music by: | Tadashi Hattori |
| Cinematography: | Asakazu Nakai |
| Screenplay by: | Eijirô Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa, Keiji Matsuzaki |