Why Are We Young?

Overview

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.

Directed by Toshio Masuda

Top cast

Yūjirō Ishihara

Kensuke Nonomura

Yukiyo Toake

Keiko Sugiura

Hiroyuki Ôta

Yasuo Takamatsu

Mieko Nishio

Ikuko Higuchi

Fujio Suga

Katsumata, vice-principal

Kokinji Katsura

Terada's father

Shōki Fukae

Kanedaka

Torahiko Hamada

Takamatsu's father

Kaku Takashina

Uegen

Kichijirō Ueda

Yamayoshi, postmaster

Zenji Yamada

Tomota

Reiko Arai

Miss Matsuoka

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