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Triumphant Song of Youth (1956)
Directed by Nobuo Aoyagi
Romance, Comedy · 46m
Swimmers Akio and Natsuko train hard for national competition while Natsuko struggles with family chaos — her father’s affair and her mother’s push for an arranged marriage. Pretending to date teammate Akio to escape pressure, Natsuko soon realizes her feelings are real.
Cast
Akira Takarada
Akio Shimamura
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Naomi Shiraishi
Natsuko (Kintarō’s daughter)
Takeshi Sakamoto
Genkichi Ogawa
Kingorō Yanagiya
Kintarō Tagawa
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Kiyoko (Kintarō’s wife)
Yū Fujiki
Coach Saita
K
Keiko Môri
Yoshiko Aida
Michiyo Tamaki
Emiko (Cabaret waitress)
Atsuko Ichinomiya
Genkichi’s wife
I
Ichiryusai Teiho
Isohachi Yamamoto
Y
Yayoko Kitano
Fumiko Kawano
Kiyomi Mizunoya
Maid Matsu
Crew
- Director
- Nobuo Aoyagi
- Screenplay
- Haruo Umeda
- Director of Photography
- Seiichi Endo
- Editor
- Kazuji Taira
- Producer
- Ryo Takei, Ichirō Satō
Details
- Original title
- 若人の凱歌
- Release date
- 1956-10-24
- Runtime
- 46m
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO