Triumphant Song of Youth (1956)
若人の凱歌
Swimmers Akio and Natsuko train hard for national competition while Natsuko struggles with family chaos — her father’s affair and her mother’s push for an arranged marriage. Pretending to date teammate Akio to escape pressure, Natsuko soon realizes her feelings are real.
- Date of release
- 1956-10-24
- Runtime
- 46m
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- Director
- Nobuo Aoyagi
Casting
- Akira Takarada — Akio Shimamura
- Naomi Shiraishi — Natsuko (Kintarō’s daughter)
- Takeshi Sakamoto — Genkichi Ogawa
- Kingorō Yanagiya — Kintarō Tagawa
- Nijiko Kiyokawa — Kiyoko (Kintarō’s wife)
- Yū Fujiki — Coach Saita
- Keiko Môri — Yoshiko Aida
- Michiyo Tamaki — Emiko (Cabaret waitress)
- Atsuko Ichinomiya — Genkichi’s wife
- Ichiryusai Teiho — Isohachi Yamamoto
- Yayoko Kitano — Fumiko Kawano
- Kiyomi Mizunoya — Maid Matsu
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