Why Are We Young?
July 14, 1965
1h 43m
Drama
Overview
After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional teaching style stirs up the school, but the students gradually accept him.
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Cast
Yūjirō Ishihara
Kensuke Nonomura
Yukiyo Toake
Keiko Sugiura
Hiroyuki Ôta
Yasuo Takamatsu
Mieko Nishio
Ikuko Higuchi
Fujio Suga
Katsumata, vice-principal
Kokinji Katsura
Terada's father
Shōki Fukae
Kanedaka
Torahiko Hamada
Takamatsu's father
Kaku Takashina
Uegen
Kichijirō Ueda
Yamayoshi, postmaster
Zenji Yamada
Tomota
Reiko Arai
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