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Farewell to Dream (1956)
Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita
Overview
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
Length 78 minutes
Actors
Shinji Tanaka | Yûko Mochizuki | Takahiro Tamura | Yoshiko Kuga | Isuzu Yamada | Eijirô Tôno | Shinichi Himori | Nobuo Nakamura | Noriko Arita | Teruko Kishi | Noriko Kikuoki | Kaoru Nobe | Ryôhei Ôno | Shûichi Doki | Eiko Takamatsu | Kazuko Motohashi | Tazuko Kusaka | Chisato Kasuga | Makiko Oka | Toshihiro Mogi | Kunio Teshirogi | Masahiko Inoue | Toshio Shimamura | Mari Tanahashi | Shinichirô Minami | Miko Hirata | Kimiyo Ôtsuka | Yoshino Tani | Tami Yamamoto | Yasuto Takashima | Hideo Matsuno | Yasuyuki Suzuki