About
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
Writers
Matsuo Kishi, Fumiko Hirano
Producer
Studio
Toho Eiga, TOHO
Original Title
若い先生
Original Language
Japanese
Cast
Full credits →S
Setsuko Hara
Tomiko Hirayama
Y
Yōtarō Katsumi
Schoolmaster
S
Shiro Mizutani
Senzo
K
Kamatari Fujiwara
Senzo's father
Y
Yumiko Togawa
Nobuko Terai
S
Sayuri Tanima
Kuni, Senzo's sister
Y
Yuriko Hanabusa
Senzo's mother
K
Kinji Fujiwa
Nagashima
T
Taizō Fukami
School doctor
A
Ayako Ichinose
Suzumura
T
Teruko Kato
Shige
T
Takashi Kotaka
Toshio
H
Hisako Koyanagi
Tsurumi
J
Jun Maki
Shige's father
I
Ichirō Ryūzaki
Kanzaki
K
Keiji Sakakida
Bunkichi's father
H
Hiroshi Tsukiji
Bunkichi's brother
K
Kan Yanagiya
Chika's father
