Birth of a Jazz Maiden

Birth of a Jazz Maiden (1957)

Music

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a young student, Katō Yutaka, who asks her to let him take her picture. The peddlers also meet a jazz band, and when Midori sings a song, teased by the band's star singer Nanjō Haruo, the band members are enraptured by her beautiful voice. She eventually joins the band and quickly becomes a popular jazz singer.

Director: Masahisa Sunohara

Casts

	Chiemi Eri as Midori Kawai
	Yūjirō Ishihara as Haruo Nanjô
	Isamu Kosugi as Tôhô Tani
	Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as Yutaka Katô
	Taiji Tonoyama as Senkichi Hanamura
	Kyōji Aoyama as Yoshihiko Katô
	Ikuko Kimuro as Sanae
	Kiyoko Tange as Oyoshi
	Shintarō Kido as Dam Dam
	Shinsuke Maki as Ken
	Shosei Muto as
	Zenji Yamada as
	Shirō Amakusa as
	Hideko Kariya as
	Masahiro Kamegai as
	Gō Kuroda as
	Michiko Sakyō as
	日輪マコ as
	Sachiko Nishida as
	Tamami Togo as
	Yukihiko Sugi as
	Eiko Higashitani as
	Kyoko Hori as
	Ken Mishima as
	Tsuchiyasu Kinohara as
	Kōji Yashiro as
	Reiko Arai as
	Masayo Ueda as
	Kazuko Sato as

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