Night School

Story

Synopsis

Senta lives with his mother and little brother and supports them by working at day at a factory and attending eighth grade in the evening. One day he finds a letter on his desk, left by Ryohei, a day school student who has lost his pencil case and asks his night-school counterpart to return it…

Director

Ishirō Honda

Writers

Teiji Seta, Yōko Mizuki

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

Release date

18 April 1956

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Teiji Takahashi

  Day time teacher

• 

  Keiju Kobayashi

  Night time teacher

• 

  Yōichi Numata

  (uncredited)

• 

  Michiyo Kogure

  Senta's mother (uncredited)

• Okinari Yoshioka

  Senta

• Takeshi Ando

  Ryohei

• Saburō Bōya

  Train passenger (uncredited)

• 

  Norihei Miki

  Train passenger (uncredited)

• Misako Sakaguchi

  (uncredited)

• Junji Masuda

  Postmaster (uncredited)

• Katsuyuki Nomura

  Senta's younger brother (uncredited)