Young Teacher (1942)
Synopsis
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: 1942-03-20
Runtime: 89 minutes
Director: Takeshi Sato
Top Cast
- Setsuko Hara as Tomiko Hirayama
- Yōtarō Katsumi as Schoolmaster
- Ichiro Sawai as Ichiro
- Shiro Mizutani as Senzo
- Kamatari Fujiwara as Senzo's father
- Yumiko Togawa as Nobuko Terai
- Sayuri Tanima as Kuni, Senzo's sister
- Yuriko Hanabusa as Senzo's mother
- Tsuruko Baba as Woman at shop
- Kinji Fujiwa as Nagashima
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