The Start of Life (1965)
A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank and offers them to him to make a new start. He refuses at first but eventually agrees and so she goes back to school to tell her teacher that she has decided not to continue college, that she is young and strong, and can make her own way in life.
Director:
Takashi Nomura
Writer:
Tsutomu Tamura
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Sayuri Yoshinaga as Jun Ishiguro |
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Mitsuo Hamada as Katsumi Tsukamoto |
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Yumiko Nogawa as Yuriko |
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Mamoru Matsubara as Takayuki Ishiguro |
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Mieko Nishio as Nonko |
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Yoko Minakaze as |
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Tomoko Hamakawa as |
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Michiko Sasamori as |
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Toyo Fukuda as |
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Mugihito as |
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Shogen Nitta as |
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Seiji Miyaguchi as Tatsugoro Ishiguro |
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Taiji Tonoyama as |
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Kin Sugai as |
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Tanie Kitabayashi as Tomi Ishiguro |
| Editing | Akira Suzuki | Editor |
| Sound | Koshiro Jinbo | Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Kazuo Yoshida | Lighting Technician |
| Writing | Chiyo Hayafune | Original Story |
| Directing | Takashi Nomura | Director |
| Directing | Kigen Kinoshita | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Tsutomu Tamura | Screenplay |
| Camera | Minoru Yokoyama | Director of Photography |
| Art | Kimihiko Nakamura | Art Direction |
| Sound | RiichirÅ Manabe | Original Music Composer |