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The Start of Life

19651h 39mMovieDrama

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings…

DirectorTakashi Nomura
WriterTsutomu Tamura

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Cast · Directed by Takashi Nomura

SYSayuri Yoshinaga
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Jun Ishiguro
MHMitsuo Hamada
Mitsuo Hamada
Katsumi Tsukamoto
YNYumiko Nogawa
Yumiko Nogawa
Yuriko
MM
Mamoru Matsubara
Takayuki Ishiguro
MNMieko Nishio
Mieko Nishio
Nonko
YMYoko Minakaze
Yoko Minakaze
THTomoko Hamakawa
Tomoko Hamakawa
MS
Michiko Sasamori
TF
Toyo Fukuda
MMugihito
Mugihito
SN
Shogen Nitta
SMSeiji Miyaguchi
Seiji Miyaguchi
Tatsugoro Ishiguro

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