Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English. Despite facing opposition from his family and nationalist factions, he founds Keio University, becoming a key figure in Japan's modernization amid political turmoil.
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- 1954
- Released
- 1h 38m
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Masujiro Ohmura
Chieko Higashiyama
Yukichi's Mother Ojun
Chieko Nakakita
Tau
Fuyuki Murakami
Yoshimasu Takahashi
Akira Takarada
Masuda Sotaro
Kurôemon Onoe
Yukichi FukuzawaShizuko Azuma
Yukichi's Wife Nishiki
Yoshiko Kayama
Eldest daughter IchitaroMasayuki Ohta
Second son: SutejiroMitsuo Sugimoto
Yukichi's older brother SannosukeYûko Togawa
sister-in-law
Toranosuke Ogawa
uncle
Eiko Miyoshi
aunt
Toshio Takahara
Shukichi Okamoto
Senkichi Ōmura
Seisaku Tezuka
Shōichi Hirose
Keisuke OhtoriYo Shiomi
Ogata Koan
Ren Yamamoto
Eiji AsabukiBin Moritsuka
Atsujiro ObataKoji Suzuki
Obata Nizaburo
Daisuke Inoue
Nakagamigawa HikojiroMotohisa Nakashiro
Kazuma YamagamiTsuneo Katagiri
Kazuma's father, JudayuKôji Uno
Hattori Asanosuke
Sachio Sakai
Kenichiro HamamuraOkayu Taka
Katase KingoMichio Sakurai
Kanjuro TsukadaAkira Yamada
Satoshi NomuraTatsuo Sakurai
Ichijou MakotoAkira Tani
WoodcutterMaki Soukichi
Yamamoto MonojiroIchirō Chiba
Gorobei HattoriIchirō Tate
Okuhira IkiKiyoshi Kamoda
Kuwana GumaRen Imaizumi
Samurai MizushimaKatao Kawasaki
Tool Shop
Takeshi Katō
Ronin on the ship
Takamaru Sasaki
Samurai passing each other
Mitsue Tachibana
geishaMasako Nijo
OmitsuReleased
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