Tsugaru Folksong

Tsugaru Folksong

103 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 20, 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.

Tsugaru Folksong

103 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 20, 1973

Tsugaru Folksong
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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Toho Company, Ltd., Art Theatre Guild
Original title 津軽じょんがら節
Directors Kōichi Saitō
Writers Kōichi Saitō, Takehiro Nakajima

Cast

Kyōko Enami

as Isako Nakazato

Akira Oda

as Tetsuo Iwaki

Mihoko Nakagawa

as Yuki

Kō Nishimura

as Tamezo Tsukamoto

Hideo Sato

as Kanayama

Minori Terada

as Yutaka

Haruko Toda

as Waki, Yuki's grand mother