Boyhood (少年期, Shōnenki), also known as A Record of Youth, is a 1951 Japanese drama film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.
[2][4] When a family of Tokyo war evacuees arrives on the outskirts of Suwa, they are met with hostility by most villagers.
The father, an English professor who had to quit lecturing due to his liberal views, opposes his son Ichirō's wish to enlist at a military school.
Ichirō, who previously had to suffer mockery at school for alleged cowardice, is now confronted with his new schoolmates' reluctance and bullied by the son of the local military commander.
The screenplay for Boyhood is based on a compilation of letters exchanged between child psychologist and writer Isoko Hatano and her son in 1944–1946.