Twenty-Year-Old Youth
1946The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by the American occupiers of Japan following World War II as it encouraged westernization and contrasted with the traditional bow prevalent in that country.
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Reikichi Kawamura
as 桑原/Kuwabara
Toyo Takahashi
as 浅子/Asako
Michiko Ikuno
as 章子/Shoko
Seiji Nishimura
as 三好/Miyoshi
Shirō Ōsaka
as 啓吉/Keikichi
Akira Takakura
as 二郎/Jiro
Kaoru Aikawa
as Sumiko
Chuichi Inagawa
as Inoue
Hideko Mimura
as Oshige
Torao Mitsuyama
as Noboru
Shin'yō Nara
as Furukawa
Yasuhiko Sakaki
as Aoki
Takeshi Sakamoto
as Morita
Aki Sakuraba
as Mizukami
Emi Shimura
as Yamashita