Why Are We Young?

After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional teaching style stirs up the school, but the students gradually accept him.

• Toshio MasudaDirector
• Nobuo YamadaScreenplay
• Toshio MasudaScreenplay

• Yūjirō IshiharaKensuke Nonomura
• Yukiyo ToakeKeiko Sugiura
• Hiroyuki ÔtaYasuo Takamatsu
• Mieko NishioIkuko Higuchi
• Fujio SugaKatsumata, vice-principal
• Kokinji KatsuraTerada's father
• Shōki FukaeKanedaka
• Torahiko HamadaTakamatsu's father
• Kaku TakashinaUegen
• Kichijirō UedaYamayoshi, postmaster
• Zenji YamadaTomota
• Reiko AraiMiss Matsuoka