No Regrets for Our Youth
- Setsuko Hara: Yukie
- Susuma Fujita: Ryukichi Noge
- Akitake Kono: Itokawa
- Denjirô Okochi: Professor Yagihara
No Regrets for Our Youth ( Original title:わが 青春 に 悔 なし, Waga seishun ni kuinashi ) is a 1946 by Akira Kurosawa turned in Japan drama. It was produced by Toho and is the first film Kurosawa after the defeat of Japan in World War II.
Action
Yukie, the spoiled and naive daughter of the professor plenty Yagihara will, of two of his students, Ryukichi Noge and Itokawa, courted, but can not decide between them. Professor Yagihara is suspended from the university service because of his liberal views, Noge joins a left - democratic student organization and is arrested at a demonstration while Itokawa turns away and enters the civil service. Yukie leaves her parents' home and moved to Tokyo, where they met a few years Itokawa, who is now married. He brings them together with Noge, who also lives in Tokyo. Both marry and Yukie can a lot, especially about themselves, learn in their relationship with Noge. Noge is again because of his political activism, this time with Yukie, was arrested and died in prison under foreign influence. Yukie is released and tested for Nõges parents living as rice farmers in a village. Due to the political activities of her son both are shunned in the community and bullied to some extent. Yukie wins through hard work and unshakable will, finally, the recognition of both, and manages to strengthen their character.
No Regrets for Our Youth as a concept film
Concept films are a required by the American occupation forces in postwar Japan's film division. In general, their Hauptintension lay in a reconnaissance of the Japanese population on the basic principles of Western democracy. In keeping with these objectives is the focus of the film 's motto "Freedom and Responsibility ", which for most Yukie plays a central role in the increasingly emancipating itself throughout the film and thus an example figure for the democratization of Japan is.
Background
The Waga seishun ni ajar from kuinashi " I regret nothing " was a catchphrase of his time and was constantly recurring use in the media at that time. Kurosawa, however, regretted a lot of the film. The film was made between the two great strikes of Toho, from February to October 1946 in two months of work. With a win in the first strike the Toho company union was a strong increase in power. The number of CP members increased, making her voice in terms of film production was significantly more weight. They set up a committee for examination of screenplays. Kurosawa was forced to rewrite his screenplay and turning a revised version. This was done for two reasons. First, there existed at the same time a submitted screenplay with a substance similar to the content. Kurosawa was of the view that these two screenplays came on the fabric in very different ways and therefore two different movies would come out. The committee rejected this, but some members agreed with him after the completion of filming then too. Second, land reform and a resolution by Japanese multinationals employed by the American occupiers GHQ took place in the postwar period. Therefore, Kurosawa was compelled by the corporate union of Toho to include this with. He did this in the last third of his film. Ultimately, this film is still something special for him, the wartime it had been impossible for him the fullness of youth to bring to bear, as the carefree feelings of youth were regarded as a spiritual state of British and American effeminacy.