# No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

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**Original title**: *わが青春に悔なし*
**Runtime**: 111 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Akira Kurosawa
**Written by**: Akira Kurosawa, Eijiro Hisaita, Keiji Matsuzaki
**Starring**: Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Haruko Sugimura, Eiko Miyoshi, Akitake Kōno

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A radical professor’s daughter in pre-war Japan watches power strip his ideals then tries on different lives—student lover, communist activist, wartime laborer—until she carves out a stubborn independence by war’s end. Yukie’s stubborn clarity carries Kurosawa’s early humanist charge.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, slow-burn, tender

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