Eddy Currents of Life
1h 37m

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and Fumiko finds herself in financial trouble, not being able to pay for her schooling and her school excursion trip. Still, she gets a temporary job at a factory and tries to make ends meet. A film about bright side of youth adapted from the television serial of the same name.
Cast

Sayuri Yoshinaga
Fumiko Hayashi

Mitsuo Hamada
Kohei Osugi

Ken Yamauchi
Jiro Sasaki

Midori Tashiro
Tsugiko Sasaki

Tomoko Naraoka
Mino Hayashi

Kenjirō Ishiyama
Unknown

Eijirō Tōno
Shigesuke Hayashi

Sadako Sawamura
Teacher Ikegami
Ayako Hosho
Unknown

Kyoko Hori
Teacher Gunda

Daizaburo Hirata
Jiro's older brother

Zenji Yamada
Unknown

Zenpei Saga
Jiro's father

Hideaki Nitani
Teacher Mori

Arihiro Fujimura
Kikumaru Segawa
Crew

Buichi Saitō
Director

Sumie Tanaka
Screenplay
Kimiaki Koyamazaki
Screenplay
Mitsuo Kondō
Editor
Kazumi Iwasa
Director of Photography
Noboru Kaji
Assistant Director
Tsuneo Furuyama
Sound Recordist
Mitsuo Onishi
Lighting Technician
Taichiro Kosugi
Original Music Composer
Hisako Tateishi
Dialect Coach

Fumiko Hayashi
Original Story
Takeharu Sakaguchi
Art Direction
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