Notes of an Itinerant Performer
1941Uta’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.
Acted in
Yaeko Mizutani
as Utajo
Ken Uehara
as Shôtarô Hiramatsu
Hideo Fujino
as Shôsuke Hiramatsu
Kyōko Asagiri
as Nuiko
Haruhiko Tsuda
as Jirô
Reikichi Kawamura
as Kajikawa
Hideko Kasuga
as Ayako
Minpei Tomimoto
as Monroku
Einosuke Naka
as Shônosuke
Hiroshi Mizuhara
as Koijûrô
Ryōtarō Mizushima
Hideo Takeda
as Yamafuji
Kanji Kawara
as Kanekichi
Toshiaki Konoe
as Shinge
Chōko Iida
as Landlady
Jun Nemoto
as Interpreter
M. Ukraintsev
as Smith
Eiko Miyoshi
as Otane
Shinichi Himori
as Doctor