Young Teacher

Story

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.

Director

Takeshi Sato

Writers

Matsuo Kishi, Fumiko Hirano

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

Release date

20 March 1942

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Setsuko Hara

  Tomiko Hirayama

• 

  Yōtarō Katsumi

  Schoolmaster

• Ichiro Sawai

  Ichiro

• Shiro Mizutani

  Senzo

• 

  Kamatari Fujiwara

  Senzo's father

• Yumiko Togawa

  Nobuko Terai

• Sayuri Tanima

  Kuni, Senzo's sister

• 

  Yuriko Hanabusa

  Senzo's mother

• Tsuruko Baba

  Woman at shop

• 

  Kinji Fujiwa

  Nagashima

• 

  Taizō Fukami

  School doctor

• Ayako Ichinose

  Suzumura