Akira Kurosawa: Every Movie Ranked Worst To Best
21. No Regrets For Our Youth (1946)
The first film Kurosawa directed after the Second World War, No Regrets for Our Youth tells the story of Yukie (Setsuko Hara), who struggles to cope with life when her father loses his job and her love interest is arrested following a protest.
Made in an attempt to understand both pre- and-post-war attitudes to Japan's shifting political climate, the drama rises with Hara's evocative performance and soars with Kurosawa's scorching script.
It may be slightly heavy-handed as far as its politics is concerned, but No Regrets for Our Youth is still a gem oft-forgotten within Kurosawa's staggering filmography.