Twenty-Year-Old Youth (1946)
The 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.
- Released
- 1946-05-23
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Runtime
- 72 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Shôhei Takei, Yasushi Sasaki, Takao Yanai
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- 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