A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank and offers them to him to make a new start. He refuses at first but eventually agrees and so she goes back to school to tell her teacher that she has decided not to continue college, that she is young and strong, and can make her own way in life.
Credits
The Start of Life Cast
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Character |
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Seiji Miyaguchi
He was 51, 71 years old when he died
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as Tatsugoro Ishiguro |
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Taiji Tonoyama
He was 49, 73 years old when he died
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Mitsuo Hamada
He was 21, now 81 years old
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as Katsumi Tsukamoto |
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Sayuri Yoshinaga
She was 20, now 79 years old
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as Jun Ishiguro |
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Tanie Kitabayashi
She was 53, 98 years old when she died
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as Tomi Ishiguro |
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Yumiko Nogawa
She was 20, now 80 years old
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as Yuriko |
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Kin Sugai
She was 39, 92 years old when she died
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Toyo Fukuda
She was 37, now 97 years old
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Mugihito
He was 20, now 80 years old
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Mieko Nishio
She was 17, now 77 years old
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as Nonko |
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Shogen Nitta
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The Start of Life Crew
