No Regrets for Our Youth

No Regrets for Our Youth , Waga seishun ni kuinashi? , aka No Regrets for My Youth is a 1946 film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is based on the Takigawa incident of 1933.

The film begins in 1933. Students at Kyoto Imperial University protest against the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Prominent professor Yagihara Denjiro Okochi is relieved of his post because of his leftist views against fascism. The professors daughter Yukie Setsuko Hara is courted by two of her fathers students Ryukichi Noge Susumu Fujita and Itokawa Akitake Kno. Itokawa is safe and sensible while Noge is fiery. Yukie is eventually drawn toward Noge.Noge disappears following an antimilitarist student protest. His disappearance is the result of being arrested and he spends four years in jail. By the time Itokawa now a prosecutor for the government tells Yukie about Noges whereabouts he has already been out of jail for a year. He also tells her that he is a changed man, that he is no longer how Yukie remembered him. ........

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