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Why Are We Young?

Toshio Masuda

1965 • 1h 43m

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 gra...

Why Are We Young?

Cast

Yūjirō Ishihara

Yūjirō IshiharaKensuke Nonomura

Yukiyo Toake

Yukiyo ToakeKeiko Sugiura

Hiroyuki Ôta

Hiroyuki ÔtaYasuo Takamatsu

Mieko Nishio

Mieko NishioIkuko Higuchi

Fujio Suga

Fujio SugaKatsumata, vice-principal

Kokinji Katsura

Kokinji KatsuraTerada's father

Shōki Fukae

Shōki FukaeKanedaka

Torahiko Hamada

Torahiko HamadaTakamatsu's father

Kaku Takashina

Kaku TakashinaUegen

Kichijirō Ueda

Kichijirō UedaYamayoshi, postmaster

Zenji Yamada

Zenji YamadaTomota

Reiko Arai

Reiko AraiMiss Matsuoka

Crew

Toshio Masuda

Toshio MasudaDirector

Nobuo Yamada

Nobuo YamadaScreenplay

Shintarō Ishihara

Shintarō IshiharaStory

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