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No Regrets for Our Youth: Kurosawa’s Bold Post-War Melodrama | Dissident Cinema

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Filmspotting

Film History, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.64.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Bringing silent film grammar to a post-war awakening.

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0:28.9

What kind of a show are you guys putting on here today?

0:31.8

You're not interested in art?

0:33.0

No.

0:33.4

Now look, we're going to do this thing. We're going to have a conversation.

0:38.2

Hey, FilmSpoters, Adam and Josh here doing with this dissident cinema marathon, what we've been doing, making the show available as a separate drop.

0:48.8

We've heard Josh from listeners that they seem to enjoy this, being able to find these marathon episodes easily, finding

0:57.3

them separate from the show, especially because a lot of times they end up going back and

1:02.3

checking out these episodes after they've had a chance to see these films. This is the third

1:07.7

movie in our dissident cinema marathon. And we're returning to a

1:10.9

director that we've devoted a fair amount of time to over the last year. So our listeners,

1:16.0

if you're a family member, you've heard a lot of Kurosawa talk over the last year because we've had

1:20.8

bonus content to shows where we've talked about stray dog. We've talked about drunken angel.

1:26.6

And I think that's prepared us nicely for this conversation about 1946's, no regrets for our youth. We will remind listeners that film spotting marathons are about eliminating our cinematic blind spots devoted to directors like Kurosawa, actors sometimes genres or regions of world cinema. We have done

1:47.1

over 50 of these since the show's inception in 2005. As for this one, the dissident cinema

1:54.6

marathon, we're looking at films that depict or openly confront fascism. So we've got six films in all.

2:03.3

You can see that full lineup and find out where to watch these movies at

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