Feature Film
Twenty-Year-Old Youth
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.
Cast
Reikichi Kawamura
桑原/Kuwabara
Toyo Takahashi
浅子/Asako
Michiko Ikuno
章子/Shoko
N/A
Seiji Nishimura
三好/Miyoshi
Shirō Ōsaka
啓吉/Keikichi
N/A
Akira Takakura
二郎/Jiro
N/A
Kaoru Aikawa
Sumiko
N/A
Chuichi Inagawa
Inoue
Hideko Mimura
Oshige
N/A
Torao Mitsuyama
Noboru
Shin'yō Nara
Furukawa
N/A
Yasuhiko Sakaki
Aoki
Takeshi Sakamoto
Morita
N/A
Aki Sakuraba
Mizukami
N/A
Emi Shimura
Yamashita