No Regrets for Our Youth (Kurosawa, 1946): BFI Southhbank, NFT1, 12.45pm
This 35mm presentation, also screening on January 10th, is part of the Akira Kurosawa season. You can find the full details here.
BFI introduction to 10 essential Kurosawa films:
Inspired by
several real-life incidents, No Regrets for Our Youth is an intelligent
and balanced drama about wavering ideologies and personal allegiances
set between 1933-46, the years of imperial Japan’s increasing
militarisation through to its wartime defeat. Yukie is the
privileged daughter of a Kyoto University law professor who is
controversially removed from his post for his leftist beliefs. The film
portrays her relationships over the years with 2 of his former students,
both rival for her affections, and her love affair and ensuing marriage
to one of them, who is arrested for his anti-government activities and
subsequently disappears from public view. Kurosawa’s
oeuvre is not particularly regarded for its focus on sympathetic female
characters, but the central turn by Setsuko Hara (better known for her
work with Yasujiro Ozu) in his fifth feature (and first of the postwar
period) showcases another side to the director, and also counts as his
most overtly political work.
Jasper Sharp
Here (and above) is a video of extracts from the film.
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