Notes of an Itinerant Performer (1941)
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.
Director:
Hiroshi Shimizu
Writers:
Taketaka Yagisawa, Kihan Nagase.
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Yaeko Mizutani as Utajo |
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Ken Uehara as Shôtarô Hiramatsu |
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Hideo Fujino as Shôsuke Hiramatsu |
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Kyōko Asagiri as Nuiko |
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Haruhiko Tsuda as Jirô |
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Reikichi Kawamura as Kajikawa |
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Hideko Kasuga as Ayako |
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Minpei Tomimoto as Monroku |
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Einosuke Naka as Shônosuke |
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Hiroshi Mizuhara as Koijûrô |
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Ryōtarō Mizushima as |
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Hideo Takeda as Yamafuji |
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Kanji Kawara as Kanekichi |
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Toshiaki Konoe as Shinge |
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Chōko Iida as Landlady |
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Jun Nemoto as Interpreter |
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M. Ukraintsev as Smith |
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Eiko Miyoshi as Otane |
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Shinichi Himori as Doctor |
| Directing | Hiroshi Shimizu | Director |
| Editing | Yoshiyasu Hamamura | Editor |
| Camera | Suketarô Inokai | Director of Photography |
| Production | Gorô Ôtsuji | Producer |
| Art | Minoru Esaka | Art Direction |
| Sound | Senji Ito | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Taketaka Yagisawa | Screenplay |
| Writing | Kihan Nagase | Screenplay |
| Sound | Takenori Mori | Sound Recordist |