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The Gate of Youth is a film of genre Drama directed by Kirio Urayama with Ken Tanaka

The Gate of Youth (1975)

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Length 3h8
Directed by
Genres Drama
Rating69% 3.495443.495443.495443.495443.49544

The Gate of Youth (青春の門, Seishun no mon) is a 1975 Japanese drama film on a story by Hiroyuki Itsuki.

Actors

Ken Tanaka

(Shinsuke, as a teenager)
Kenji Matsuda

(Shinsuke, aged 6)
Tatsuya Nakadai

(Yuki, Shinsuke's father)
Keiko Takahashi
Sayuri Yoshinaga

(Shinsuke's stepmother)
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