Notes of an Itinerant Performer

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.

• Release date
• March 16, 1941
• Runtime
• 98 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Hiroshi Shimizu

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

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Minpei Tomimoto Monroku