The Start of Life

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 29, 1965

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Nikkatsu Corporation

Cast

Seiji Miyaguchi,Mitsuo Hamada,Tanie Kitabayashi,Yoko Minakaze,Mugihito,Yumiko Nogawa,Tomoko Hamakawa,Mieko Nishio,Sayuri Yoshinaga,Taiji Tonoyamaand 5 more

Director

Takashi Nomura

Writer

Tsutomu Tamura,Chiyo Hayafune

Cinematography

Minoru Yokoyama

Music

Riichirō Manabe

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt2587206