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1929 film

Days of Youth
Directed by	Yasujirō Ozu
Written by	Akira Fushimi Yasujirō Ozu
Starring	Ichirō Yūki Tatsuo Saitō Junko Matsui
Cinematography	Hideo Shigehara
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	13 April 1929 (1929-04-13)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Days of Youth (学生ロマンス若き日, Gakusei romance: Wakaki hi, 1929) is a Japanese comedy film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It is the oldest known surviving film by the director. The film tells of two friends from a university (played by Ichirō Yūki and Tatsuo Saitō) who vie for the attention of the same girl (Junko Matsui) during a skiing trip.

Cast

Ichirō Yūki as Bin Watanabe (a student)
Tatsuo Saitō as Shūichi Yamamoto (a student)
Junko Matsui as Chieko
Chōko Iida as Chieko's mother
Eiko Takamatsu as Landlady
Shōichi Kofujita as Shōji (her son)
Ichirō Ōkuni as Professor Anayama
Takeshi Sakamoto as Professor
Shin'ichi Himori as Hatamoto (a student)
Fusao Yamada as Kobayashi (a student)
Chishū Ryū as Student

References

Stuart Galbraith IV. "Days of Youth DVD review". Archived from the original on 28 October 2007. Retrieved 24 March 2008.

External links

v t e Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Silent films	Sword of Penitence (1927) Days of Youth (1929) I Graduated, But... (1929) Walk Cheerfully (1930) I Flunked, But... (1930) That Night's Wife (1930) The Lady and the Beard (1931) Tokyo Chorus (1931) I Was Born, But... (1932) Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932) Until the Day We Meet Again (1932) Woman of Tokyo (1933) Dragnet Girl (1933) Passing Fancy (1933) A Mother Should Be Loved (1934) A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) An Inn in Tokyo (1935)
Sound films	The Only Son (1936) What Did the Lady Forget? (1937) Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941) There Was a Father (1942) Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) A Hen in the Wind (1948) Late Spring (1949) The Munekata Sisters (1950) Early Summer (1951) The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952) Tokyo Story (1953) Early Spring (1956) Tokyo Twilight (1957) Equinox Flower (1958) Good Morning (1959) Floating Weeds (1959) Late Autumn (1960) The End of Summer (1961) An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Silent films

Sword of Penitence (1927)
Days of Youth (1929)
I Graduated, But... (1929)
Walk Cheerfully (1930)
I Flunked, But... (1930)
That Night's Wife (1930)
The Lady and the Beard (1931)
Tokyo Chorus (1931)
I Was Born, But... (1932)
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932)
Until the Day We Meet Again (1932)
Woman of Tokyo (1933)
Dragnet Girl (1933)
Passing Fancy (1933)
A Mother Should Be Loved (1934)
A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
An Inn in Tokyo (1935)

Sound films

The Only Son (1936)
What Did the Lady Forget? (1937)
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
There Was a Father (1942)
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
A Hen in the Wind (1948)
Late Spring (1949)
The Munekata Sisters (1950)
Early Summer (1951)
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Early Spring (1956)
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Equinox Flower (1958)
Good Morning (1959)
Floating Weeds (1959)
Late Autumn (1960)
The End of Summer (1961)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

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