Film

Young Teacher

1942 · 1h 29m · Drama

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is enjoyable, but she gradually notices that many of the students are skipping school. Visiting her students after class, she realizes that many of them are charged with work and tasks like making money, toiling on the farm, doing housework or tending to their younger siblings. Many of them live in unhygienic homes due to poverty or overwork. She not only reports and explains the situation to the school's principal, but also attempts to improve the conditions by making textbooks, teaching cleanliness, and making her classes relevant.

Setsuko Hara

Tomiko Hirayama

Yōtarō Katsumi

Schoolmaster

Ichiro Sawai

Ichiro

Shiro Mizutani

Senzo

Kamatari Fujiwara

Senzo's father

Yumiko Togawa

Nobuko Terai

Sayuri Tanima

Kuni, Senzo's sister

Yuriko Hanabusa

Senzo's mother

Tsuruko Baba

Woman at shop

Kinji Fujiwa

Nagashima

Taizō Fukami

School doctor

Ayako Ichinose

Suzumura

Teruko Kato

Shige

Takashi Kotaka

Toshio

Masako Kawada

Toshio's mother

Mikio Kobori

Bunkichi

• Takeshi SatoDirector
• Matsuo KishiScreenplay
• Fumiko HiranoStory
• Michimi TamuraProducer
• Tatsuo TomonariDirector of Photography
• Mikiya TachibanaDirector of Photography
• Kôichi IwashitaEditor

Release date

March 20, 1942

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

Drama