- The daughter of a politically disgraced university professor struggles to find a place for herself in love and life, in the uncertain world of Japan leading into WWII.
- In 1933, in Kyoto, academic freedom is under attack and the spoiled daughter of Professor Yagihara, Yukie Yagihara, is courted by the idealistic student Ruykichi Noge and by the tolerant Itokawa. When the academic freedom movement is crushed by the fascists, Professor Yagihara and the members of the Faculty of Law resign from their positions and Noge is arrested. Five years later, Noge visits Professor Yagihara and his family under the custody of the now Prosecutor Itokawa and tells them that he is going to China. Yukie decides to move alone to Tokyo and years later, she meets Itokawa in Tokyo and tells her that Noge is living in Tokyo. Yukie visits Noge and they become lovers. In 1941, Noge is arrested accused of being the ringleader of a spy network and Yukie is also sent to prison. When she is released, she decides to move to the peasant village where Noge's parents live and are blamed of being spies by the villagers. She changes her lifestyle and works hard with Madame Noge planting rice and earning the respect of her mother and father-in-law. With the end of the war, freedom is restored in the defeated Japan and the flowers blossom again.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 1933. Japanese militarists are using the incident in Manchuria as a reason to quash any dissent, anything not falling in line with the want for that military action deemed Communist. Liberally-minded Law Professor Yagihara of Kyoto Imperial University is relieved from his position in his anti-military views, he who is nonetheless largely supported by his fellow faculty and his students, especially in the goal of protection of academic freedom. His daughter, Yukie Yagihara, is friends with a group of seven of his male students, Noge and Itokawa in particular, they all who are trying to decide how best to support the Professor, which may include dropping out of university to continue to protest. The two men are different in temperament: Noge, a leftist firebrand, is willing to protest openly which has led to him being arrested time and again, while Itokawa, while still supporting the Professor, is more reserved and calculated in not wanting to upset the proverbial apple cart. Both men love Yukie, and she in turn loves both in different ways. As the years progress, the global situation changes, and the individuals evolve while exiting and reentering each others lives, Yukie has to decide what and who she wants in life, one path a stable but most-likely boring existence, the other an exciting but unpredictable one and thus with greater potential heartache, that unpredictability due in large part to Noge and Itokawa diverging further and further apart.—Huggo
- Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings, and even more so when her lover, one of her father's students, is arrested, then executed as a spy. She decides to leave Kyoto to live with the boy's parents in their peasant village. But life still has many lessons for her.....—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
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By what name was No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) officially released in India in English?
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