Akira Kurosawa Centennial
No Regrets for Our Youth
Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1946)
- When
- Wed Jul 21, 2010
- Where
- Pacific Film Archive (PFA)
- Time
- 7:00-8:50 PM
- Cost
- $5.50 - $9.50
- Tags
- Movies, Foreign
Description
7:00 No Regrets for Our YouthAkira Kurosawa (Japan, 1946)
(Waga seishun ni kui nashi). Made immediately after the war, No Regrets for Our Youth is based on an incident in 1930s Kyoto in which a democratic-minded university professor was dismissed for “Communist thinking” and one of his students, a leader of an antiwar movement, was subsequently executed as a spy. Kurosawa is concerned with the effect of this persecution upon someone whose implication in the events evolves from personal rather than political commitments—namely, the professor’s idealistic daughter, who is also the student’s girlfriend. Her suffering—which eventually leads her to leave the city and go to work on a farm—is the focus of the film. Kurosawa later commented, “The critics were ferocious about the character of the woman in this picture but it was only here and in Rashomon that I ever fully and fairly portrayed a woman. Of course, all my women are rather strange, I agree. But this woman I wanted to show as the new Japan.”
• Written by Eijiro Hisaita, Kurosawa. Photographed by Asakazu Nakai. With Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Denjiro Okochi, Haruko Sugimura. (110 mins, In Japanese with English subtitles, B&W, 16mm, From the Japan Foundation, Permission Janus/Criterion Collection)
More Info
- Link
- http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/kurosawa_centennial
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- 510.643.2197
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