Notes of an Itinerant Performer

Overview

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performances. A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsu’s place, where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance.

Directed by Hiroshi Shimizu

Top cast

Yaeko Mizutani

Utajo

Ken Uehara

Shôtarô Hiramatsu

Hideo Fujino

Shôsuke Hiramatsu

Kyōko Asagiri

Nuiko

H

Haruhiko Tsuda

Jirô

Reikichi Kawamura

Kajikawa

H

Hideko Kasuga

Ayako

M

Minpei Tomimoto

Monroku

E

Einosuke Naka

Shônosuke

Hiroshi Mizuhara

Koijûrô

Ryōtarō Mizushima

Hideo Takeda

Yamafuji

Kanji Kawara

Kanekichi

Toshiaki Konoe

Shinge

Chōko Iida

Landlady

J

Jun Nemoto

Interpreter

M

M. Ukraintsev

Smith

Eiko Miyoshi

Otane

Shinichi Himori

Doctor

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