No Regrets for Our Youth
わが青春に悔なし
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.
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