No Regrets for Our Youth

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No Regrets for Our Youth
わが青春に悔なし
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Produced by Keiji Matsuzaki
Written by Eijirō Hisaita
Akira Kurosawa
Keiji Matsuzaki
Starring Setsuko Hara
Susumu Fujita
Denjirō Ōkōchi
Music by Tadashi Hattori
Distributed by Toho Company Ltd.
Release date(s) 29 October 1946
Running time 110 min.
Country Japan
Language Japanese
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No Regrets for Our Youth (わが青春に悔なし Waga seishun ni kuinashi?, aka No Regrets for My Youth) is a Japanese film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1946. It is based on the Takigawa incident of 1933.

The film stars Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, and Denjirō Ōkōchi. Fujita's character was inspired by the real-life Hotsumi Ozaki, who assisted the famous Soviet spy Richard Sorge and so became the only Japanese citizen to suffer the death penalty for treason during World War Two.

The film is in black-and-white and runs 110 minutes.

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