Night School

Night School (1956)

夜間中学

Senta lives with his mother and little brother and supports them by working at day at a factory and attending eighth grade in the evening. One day he finds a letter on his desk, left by Ryohei, a day school student who has lost his pencil case and asks his night-school counterpart to return it…

Date of release
1956-04-18
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
44m
Genres
Drama
Director
Ishirō Honda

Casting

Interesting facts

Night School is a 1956 Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda.

Production

Night School was director Ishirō Honda's only film ever directed outside of Toho. The film was among the first about the topic of night schools. The original idea for developing a film around night schools was from Kanesaku Toda, a Toho staff member who approached Honda and other ex-Nichidai men. The team got the rights to the short story by Teiji Seta titled "Mail Desk" (Yubin zukue) which appeared in the children's magazine Boys and Girls.

Honda and the film's producers submitted Night School to the Japanese government's education department, hoping to secure a seal of approval to get the film approved for families and students. The government advised Honda to change the title due to a stigma surrounding night schools, which Honda declined leading the funding being denied.

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