Night School poster

Night School poster

Night School

1956 44m 10Movie

Drama

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…

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Ishirō Honda

Director

Teiji Seta

Novel

Top Cast

Teiji Takahashi

Teiji Takahashi

Day time teacher

Keiju Kobayashi

Keiju Kobayashi

Night time teacher

Yōichi Numata

Yōichi Numata

(uncredited)

Michiyo Kogure

Michiyo Kogure

Senta's mother (uncredited)

Okinari Yoshioka

Senta

Takeshi Ando

Ryohei

Saburō Bōya

Train passenger (uncredited)

Norihei Miki

Norihei Miki

Train passenger (uncredited)

Misako Sakaguchi

(uncredited)

Junji Masuda

Postmaster (uncredited)

Katsuyuki Nomura

Senta's younger brother (uncredited)