Young Teacher

Young Teacher — Plot

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.

• Release date
• March 20, 1942
• Runtime
• 89 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Takeshi Sato

Young Teacher — Cast

Setsuko Hara Tomiko Hirayama Yōtarō Katsumi Schoolmaster

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Ichiro Sawai Ichiro

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Shiro Mizutani Senzo Kamatari Fujiwara Senzo's father

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Yumiko Togawa Nobuko Terai

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Sayuri Tanima Kuni, Senzo's sister Yuriko Hanabusa Senzo's mother