No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

Setsuko Hara: Yukie Yagihara

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• Yukie Yagihara : [Machine gun fire in the distance]  I can see the soldiers. They're so small. I like the sound. It's clear and rhythmical.

• Yukie Yagihara : I don't think the world is full of only logic. There must be beautiful, pleasant things.

• Yukie Yagihara : Listen, Itokawa. Sit down. Kowtow and apologize to me.

  Itokawa : Why?

  Yukie Yagihara : No questions! Do it. Please do. Do it now! Quickly. Quickly. Do it now! Quickly. Quickly.

  [Itokawa starts to bow] 

  Yukie Yagihara : What are you doing? Don't do it. Forget it. Forget it.

• Yukie Yagihara : If I follow you, my life will be peaceful. But, if I may say so -

  [bows] 

  Yukie Yagihara : It'll be boring.

  Itokawa : With Noge?

  Yukie Yagihara : If I follow him, something dazzling will await me. My life will be stormy.

  [laughs] 

  Yukie Yagihara : It terrifies me and fascinates me.

• Yukie Yagihara : I'm bored. I'm disgusted. I want to start my life over again.

  Professor Yagihara : It's not easy. The world isn't a garden.

  Yukie Yagihara : I know. Now I feel my life is meaningless. I want to go out in the world and see what it is like to live.

  Professor Yagihara : If you're determined, then go. Make your own way, groping and struggling. It's worth a try. But remember, you're responsible for what you do. Freedom. You must fight for it. There will be sacrifice and torture in the struggle. Be prepared.

• Yukie Yagihara : I want a job that I can dedicate myself to, body and soul. My father said when I left home: "There will be sacrifice in the struggle for freedom." I want to do something in which I can consume myself.

  Ruykichi Noge : That's not easy. How does one find such a job? It's like finding a bluebird.

• Ruykichi Noge : I was afraid of this. Our path is so steep.

  Yukie Yagihara : It's all right. I won't mind.

• Yukie Yagihara : "No regrets in my life." That's our motto. No matter how hard it may be, I like the way we live. I've found meaning in my life.

• Yukie Yagihara : Look at the clouds! Do you remember?

  Ruykichi Noge : The picnic to Mt. Yoshida? We were young.

• Yukie Yagihara : A prosecutor may think Noge was wrong. But who can tell which was greater, you or him? Time is a slow but fair judge.

• Madame Yagihara : You were born to suffer.

  Yukie Yagihara : Why? I've never pitied myself. I need no sympathy. Noge used to tell me: "No regrets in my life." I'm glad I can feel it now.

• Yukie Yagihara : I like the smell of earth. It's wonderful.

  Student 1 : I like the sky.

  Student 2 : I like the wind.

  Student 3 : I like everything.

• Professor Yagihara : Are you sure you can support yourself?

  Yukie Yagihara : I studied English and typing. I'll work for a trading company. I'll become independent.