The Start of Life
1965, Japanese. Directed by Takashi Nomura.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 29 April 1965
- Original title
- 未成年 続・キューポラのある街
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Tsutomu Tamura
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The Start of Life runs 99 minutes (1h 39m).
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The Start of Life isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 29 April 1965. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Start of Life?
The Start of Life (1965) was directed by Takashi Nomura and stars Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mitsuo Hamada, Yumiko Nogawa.