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{{Short description|1975 Japanese film}}
{{Infobox film
| name     = The Gate of Youth
| image    = The Gate of Youth 1975 poster.jpg
| caption  = Theatrical poster
| director = [[Kirio Urayama]]
| producer = [[Sanezumi Fujimoto]]
| writer   = {{plainlist|*Akira Hayasaka
*Kirio Urayama}}
| based_on = ''The Gate of Youth'' by [[Hiroyuki Itsuki]]
| starring = {{plainlist|*[[Ken Tanaka (actor)|Ken Tanaka]]
*[[Tatsuya Nakadai]]
*[[Sayuri Yoshinaga]]
*[[Shinobu Ōtake]]}}
| cinematography = Hiroshi Murai
| editing = Nobuo Ogawa
| music    = [[Riichirō Manabe]]
| country  = Japan
| language = Japanese
| runtime  = 188 minutes
| released = {{Film date|1975|2|15|df=yes}}
}}
{{nihongo|'''The Gate of Youth'''|青春の門|Seishun no mon|lead=yes}} is a 1975 Japanese [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed by [[Kirio Urayama]] from a story by [[Hiroyuki Itsuki]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2016-10-02|title=「青春の門」２３年ぶり再開へ 週刊現代に|language=ja|work=Mainichi Daily News|url=https://mainichi.jp/articles/20161002/k00/00m/040/051000c.amp|access-date=2020-09-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%9D%92%E6%98%A5%E3%81%AE%E9%96%80-718100|title=デジタル大辞泉プラス「青春の門」の解説|publisher=kotobank|access-date=9 October 2021}}</ref> A direct sequel titled ''Seishun no mon: Jiritsu hen'' (青春の門: 自立篇, transl. ''The Gate of Youth Part 2''), also directed by Urayama, was released in 1977.
== Cast ==
* [[Ken Tanaka (actor)|Ken Tanaka]] as Shinsuke (teenager)
** Tomohiro Tanabe as Shinsuke (aged 10)
** Ken Matsuda as Shinsuke (aged 6)
** Haruhiko Urayama as Shinsuke (aged 3)
* [[Tatsuya Nakadai]] as Yuki, Shinsuke's father
* [[Sayuri Yoshinaga]] as Tae, Shinsuke's stepmother
* [[Shinobu Ōtake]] as Ori-eh (teenager)
** Rie Yamazaki as Ori-eh (child)
* Toshie Kobayashi as Seki
* [[Jūkei Fujioka]] as Kijima
* [[Takuya Fujioka]] as Owner
* [[Akira Kobayashi]] as Goro
* [[Masumi Harukawa]] as Geisha
* Kazunaga Tsuji as Nagata
* [[Susumu Fujita]] as Yabe Tora
==References==
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== External links ==
*{{IMDb title|0203100}}
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[[Category:1975 drama films]]
[[Category:1975 films]]
[[Category:Films produced by Sanezumi Fujimoto]]
[[Category:Films set in Fukuoka Prefecture]]
[[Category:1970s Japanese films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Riichirō Manabe]]
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