Farewell to Dream

Farewell to Dream

78 mins | Drama | April 17, 1956

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.

Farewell to Dream

78 mins | Drama | April 17, 1956

Farewell to Dream
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Original title 夕やけ雲
Directors Keisuke Kinoshita
Writers Yoshiko Kusuda

Cast

Shinji Tanaka

as Yôichi Akimoto

Yūko Mochizuki

as Yôichi's mother, Oshin

Takahiro Tamura

as Sudô

Yoshiko Kuga

as Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko

Isuzu Yamada

as Seiji's mother, Kiyo

Eijirō Tōno

as Yôichi's father, Genkichi

Nobuo Nakamura

as Seiji's father, Haruo

Noriko Kikuoki

as Yôichi's younger sister, Kazue

Ryôhei Ôno

as Seiji Harada