
- Country: Japan
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1947-11-02
- Director: Mikio Naruse
- Writers: Toshio Yasumi
- Language: Japanese
- Stars: Tatsuya Ishiguro , Haruko Sugimura , Yoshiko Kuga , Takashi Shimura
- Runtime: 89 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: L'éveil du printemps (France, French Republic) , Haru no mezame , Пробуждение весны (Russian Federation) , Spring Awakens (United States of America) , 春の目ざめ(1947) (Japan) , Spring Awakens (United Kingdom) , Spring Awakens
- Plot: This is ostensibly a sex-education film -- with hardly any education! -- but it's incredibly beautiful. The spring and early summer scenery in Nagano (probably) echo the budding sexuality of the film's young characters. A good dose of German romantic poetry also adds to the barely sublimated sexual atmospherics. The film isn't perfect; the cast is obviously inexperienced and the film hypocritically avoids a frank discussion of sex. But even if the sublimation of sexuality runs counter to the film's surface ideology, it does make for great beauty. A young Sugi Yoko has an uncredited role as a high school student getting a school physical, but Nature is the real star.
- IMDB:tt0039449
Spring Awakens Cast · · · ALL

Mikio Naruse
Director

Tatsuya Ishiguro
Shûji Hirobe

Haruko Sugimura

Yoshiko Kuga
Kumiko Hirobe

Takashi Shimura
Kenzô Ogura
Yuriko Hanabusa
Akiko Tanai

Chōko Iida
Tama Takemura

Sachiko Murase
Masa Hirobe
Minako Hamada
Schoogirl
Otowa Haruno
Kei Ogura
Ruriko Hitomi
Hashimoto's sister
Kazumasa Hoshino
Nobuyoshi Noshiro
Chiyoko Hosokawa
Schoogirl
Fusatarō Ishijima
Male Teacher B
Yaeko Izumo
Female Teacher B
Taeko Kitajima
Schoogirl

Hiroshi Kondô
Kunio Takemura
Ayako Kunii
Kyôko Machii
Akiko Kusama
Fusako Hirobe

Itoko Kôno
Kazuko Ogura
Tsuruko Mano
Female Teacher A
Miyoko Nishiguchi
Ohatsu
Tazuko Shigi
Tomie
Yoshiko Shimamura
Schoogirl
Hiroyuki Sugi
Hiroshi Ogura

Fudeko Tanaka
Taki Tai