Where to Watch Spring Awakens (1947) in the US

What it's about

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.

Cast and crew

Director

Mikio Naruse

Writer

Mikio Naruse, Toshio Yasumi

Starring

Tatsuya Ishiguro, Haruko Sugimura, Yoshiko Kuga

Details

Release date

Nov 2, 1947

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

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