No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

No Regrets for Our Youth 1946 / わが青春に悔なし 1946 / No Regrets for My Youth , Waga Seishun ni Kuinashi

In Akira Kurosawa’s first film after the end of World War II, future beloved Ozu regular Setsuko Hara gives an astonishing performance as Yukie, the only female protagonist in Kurosawa’s body of work and one of his strongest heroes. Transforming herself from genteel bourgeois daughter to independent social activist, Yukie traverses a tumultuous decade in Japanese history.