Learn from Experience, Part One (1937): Cast

Based on a story by Kikuchi Kan, the first part follows wealthy young woman Toyomi (Takako Irie) and her lover Shintaro (Minoru Takada). When Shintaro’s father arranges his marriage to Yurie, the couple flee to Tokyo. Shintaro returns demanding marriage to Toyomi, but his father forces him to attend the arranged‑marriage meeting with Yurie. While Shintaro is away, Toyomi takes a vacation with her close friend Michiko (Yumeko Aizome). At a class reunion Toyomi, distressed by Shintaro’s silence, stays home, while Michiko runs into Shintaro and Yurie and pulls him aside to demand an explanation.

• MN Director Mikio Naruse

• TI Takako Irie as Toyomi
• MT Minoru Takada as Shintaro
• CT Chieko Takehisa as Yurie
• Yumeko Aizome as Michiko

• Moment of Terror 1966
• The Thin Line 1966
• Yearning 1964
• A Woman’s Life 1963

Also known as

• Part I
• Kafuku Zempen
• Les Vicissitudes de la vie I
• 祸福：前篇
• 화복 전편