Plot Summary
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.
Movie Details
- Original Title
- 歌女おぼえ書
- Status
- released
- Original Language
- ja
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Cast
Yaeko Mizutani
Utajo
Ken Uehara
Shôtarô Hiramatsu
Hideo Fujino
Shôsuke Hiramatsu
Kyōko Asagiri
Nuiko
Haruhiko Tsuda
Jirô
Reikichi Kawamura
Kajikawa
Hideko Kasuga
Ayako
Minpei Tomimoto
Monroku
Einosuke Naka
Shônosuke
Hiroshi Mizuhara
Koijûrô
Ryōtarō Mizushima
Hideo Takeda
Yamafuji
Kanji Kawara
Kanekichi
Toshiaki Konoe
Shinge
Chōko Iida
Landlady
Jun Nemoto
Interpreter
M. Ukraintsev
Smith
Eiko Miyoshi
Otane
Shinichi Himori
Doctor
Production Companies
Shochiku
