Learn from Experience, Part One (1937)

Release Date: 1937-10-01
Runtime: 1h 18min
Production Company: P.C.L. Eiga Seisaku-jo
Production Country: Japan
Director: Mikio Naruse

Wealthy young Toyomi and Shintaro are in love. However, Shintaro’s father is arranging for him to marry Yurie, the scion of an even wealthier family. The two lovers flee to Tokyo, but when Shintaro returns to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father browbeats him into attending the marriage meeting with Yurie. Part one of a two-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan.