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Learn from Experience, Part One

6.0 78 mins Drama   1937
P.C.L. Eiga Seisaku-jo  
Director(s): Mikio Naruse

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of Mizoguchi’s "Water Magician), a rich young woman in love with Shintaro (Minoru TAKADA), a rich young man. Unfortunately, Shintaro’s father is in the process of arranging a marriage for him with Yurie (Chieko TAKEHISA), the scion of an even wealthier family. In order to avoid this, the two young lovers flee to Tokyo to live together. When Shintaro comes back to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father browbeats him into attending the long-arranged marriage meeting with Yurie. While Shintaro is back home, Toyomi goes on a vacation trip with her closest chum, Michiko (Yumeko AIZOME). At a class reunion, Toyomi is to distressed (at not having heard from Shintaro for so long), she doesn’t go out on the town with her classmates. Michiko, however, runs into Shintaro and Yurie (also out on the town), and pulling him aside, demands an explanation.

Casts of Learn from Experience, Part One

Takako Irie

as Toyomi

Chieko Takehisa

as Yurie

Yumeko Aizome

as Michiko

Minoru Takada

as Shintaro

Sadao Maruyama

as Shintaro's father

Kō Mihashi

as Toyomi's father

Yo Shiomi

as Yurie's father

Yuriko Hanabusa

as Shintaro's mother

Toshiko Itō

as Toyomi's mother

Rikie Sanjō

as Yurie's mother

Chizuko Kanda

as Friend

Ryuko Umezono

as Friend

Naoyo Yamagata

as Friend

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