The Start of Life

1h 39m
Drama
0

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.

Cast

Sayuri Yoshinaga
Jun Ishiguro
Mitsuo Hamada
Katsumi Tsukamoto
Yumiko Nogawa
Yuriko
Mamoru Matsubara
Takayuki Ishiguro
Mieko Nishio
Nonko
Yoko Minakaze
Unknown
Tomoko Hamakawa
Unknown
Michiko Sasamori
Unknown
Toyo Fukuda
Unknown
Mugihito
Unknown
Shogen Nitta
Unknown
Seiji Miyaguchi
Tatsugoro Ishiguro
Taiji Tonoyama
Unknown
Kin Sugai
Unknown
Tanie Kitabayashi
Tomi Ishiguro

Crew

Takashi Nomura
Director
Tsutomu Tamura
Screenplay
Akira Suzuki
Editor
Minoru Yokoyama
Director of Photography
Kigen Kinoshita
Assistant Director
Koshiro Jinbo
Sound Recordist
Kazuo Yoshida
Lighting Technician
Riichirō Manabe
Original Music Composer
Chiyo Hayafune
Original Story
Kimihiko Nakamura
Art Direction

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