Film

The Start of Life

1965 · 1h 39m · Drama

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank and offers them to him to make a new start. He refuses at first but eventually agrees and so she goes back to school to tell her teacher that she has decided not to continue college, that she is young and strong, and can make her own way in life.

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Jun Ishiguro

Mitsuo Hamada

Katsumi Tsukamoto

Yumiko Nogawa

Yuriko

Mamoru Matsubara

Takayuki Ishiguro

Mieko Nishio

Nonko

Yoko Minakaze

Tomoko Hamakawa

Michiko Sasamori

Toyo Fukuda

Mugihito

Shogen Nitta

Seiji Miyaguchi

Tatsugoro Ishiguro

Taiji Tonoyama

Kin Sugai

Tanie Kitabayashi

Tomi Ishiguro

• Takashi NomuraDirector
• Tsutomu TamuraScreenplay
• Minoru YokoyamaDirector of Photography
• Riichirō ManabeOriginal Music Composer
• Akira SuzukiEditor

Release date

April 29, 1965

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 39m

Genres

Drama