Young Teacher

The story

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is enjoyable, but she gradually notices that many of the students are skipping school. Visiting her students after class, she realizes that many of them are charged with work and tasks like making money, toiling on the farm, doing housework or tending to their younger siblings. Many of them live in unhygienic homes due to poverty or overwork. She not only reports and explains the situation to the school's principal, but also attempts to improve the conditions by making textbooks, teaching cleanliness, and making her classes relevant.

Cast

S Setsuko HaraTomiko Hirayama Y Yōtarō KatsumiSchoolmaster I Ichiro SawaiIchiro S Shiro MizutaniSenzo K Kamatari FujiwaraSenzo's father Y Yumiko TogawaNobuko Terai S Sayuri TanimaKuni, Senzo's sister Y Yuriko HanabusaSenzo's mother T Tsuruko BabaWoman at shop K Kinji FujiwaNagashima T Taizō FukamiSchool doctor A Ayako IchinoseSuzumura

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T Teruko KatoShige T Takashi KotakaToshio M Masako KawadaToshio's mother M Mikio KoboriBunkichi H Hisako KoyanagiTsurumi J Jun MakiShige's father I Ichirō RyūzakiKanzaki K Keiji SakakidaBunkichi's father H Hiroshi TsukijiBunkichi's brother K Kan YanagiyaChika's father