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.

• Tadashi ManjomeOriginal Music Composer
• Yasushi SasakiDirector
• Shôhei TakeiScreenplay
• Takao YanaiScreenplay

• Reikichi Kawamura桑原/Kuwabara
• Toyo Takahashi浅子/Asako
• Michiko Ikuno章子/Shoko
• Seiji Nishimura三好/Miyoshi
• Shirō Ōsaka啓吉/Keikichi
• Akira Takakura二郎/Jiro
• Kaoru AikawaSumiko
• Chuichi InagawaInoue
• Hideko MimuraOshige
• Torao MitsuyamaNoboru
• Shin'yō NaraFurukawa
• Yasuhiko SakakiAoki