Why Are We Young? (1965)
青春とはなんだ
After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional teaching style stirs up the school, but the students gradually accept him.
- Date of release
- 1965-07-14
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Toshio Masuda
Casting
- Yūjirō Ishihara — Kensuke Nonomura
- Yukiyo Toake — Keiko Sugiura
- Hiroyuki Ôta — Yasuo Takamatsu
- Mieko Nishio — Ikuko Higuchi
- Fujio Suga — Katsumata, vice-principal
- Kokinji Katsura — Terada's father
- Shōki Fukae — Kanedaka
- Torahiko Hamada — Takamatsu's father
- Kaku Takashina — Uegen
- Kichijirō Ueda — Yamayoshi, postmaster
- Zenji Yamada — Tomota
- Reiko Arai — Miss Matsuoka
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