Tsugaru Folksong (1973)
A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to a couple arriving from Tokyo - the woman returning to her home, the man an escapee from the yakuza. The man doesn't seem to mind when the woman sells her favours to tourists at the local bar, just as she seems to take his attentions to Yuki, a blind girl, with equanimity.
Director:
Kōichi Saitō
Writers:
Takehiro Nakajima, Kōichi Saitō.
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Kyōko Enami as Isako Nakazato |
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Akira Oda as Tetsuo Iwaki |
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Mihoko Nakagawa as Yuki |
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Kō Nishimura as Tamezo Tsukamoto |
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Kōjirō Hongō as |
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Hideo Sato as Kanayama |
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Minori Terada as Yutaka |
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Haruko Toda as Waki, Yuki's grand mother |
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Kazuo Kamimura as |
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Emiko Azuma as |
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Masako Tomiyama as |
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河村久子 as |
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Fudeko Tanaka as |
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川本コオ as |
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Shintarô Kô as |
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葉原アキ as |
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山松ゆうきち as |
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奥成達 as |
| Directing | Kōichi Saitō | Director |
| Editing | Tomoyo Oshima | Editor |
| Production | Shosuke Taga | Producer |
| Camera | Noritaka Sakamoto | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Chikuzan Takahashi | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Akihiko Shimada | Producer |
| Writing | Takehiro Nakajima | Screenplay |
| Writing | Kōichi Saitō | Screenplay |
| Camera | 松前次三 | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | 榊原勝己 | Assistant Camera |
| Lighting | 水村富雄 | Gaffer |
| Lighting | 小宮山靖夫 | Electrician |
| Editing | 川口和子 | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | 若美家五郎 | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | 鳴海重光 | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | 白川軍八郎 | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Watazumi Doso | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Takashi Sugisaki | Sound Recordist |