Young Teacher

Young Teacher (1942)

Drama

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is enjoyable, but she gradually notices that many of the students are skipping school. Visiting her students after class, she realizes that many of them are charged with work and tasks like making money, toiling on the farm, doing housework or tending to their younger siblings. Many of them live in unhygienic homes due to poverty or overwork. She not only reports and explains the situation to the school's principal, but also attempts to improve the conditions by making textbooks, teaching cleanliness, and making her classes relevant.

Director: Takeshi Sato
Writer: Matsuo Kishi

Casts

	Setsuko Hara as Tomiko Hirayama
	Yōtarō Katsumi as Schoolmaster
	Ichiro Sawai as Ichiro
	Shiro Mizutani as Senzo
	Kamatari Fujiwara as Senzo's father
	Yumiko Togawa as Nobuko Terai
	Sayuri Tanima as Kuni, Senzo's sister
	Yuriko Hanabusa as Senzo's mother
	Tsuruko Baba as Woman at shop
	Kinji Fujiwa as Nagashima
	Taizō Fukami as School doctor
	Ayako Ichinose as Suzumura
	Teruko Kato as Shige
	Takashi Kotaka as Toshio
	Masako Kawada as Toshio's mother
	Mikio Kobori as Bunkichi
	Hisako Koyanagi as Tsurumi
	Jun Maki as Shige's father
	Ichirō Ryūzaki as Kanzaki
	Keiji Sakakida as Bunkichi's father
	Hiroshi Tsukiji as Bunkichi's brother
	Kan Yanagiya as Chika's father

Crew