Notes of an Itinerant Performer

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

98 mins | Drama | March 16, 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.

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

98 mins | Drama | March 16, 1941

Notes of an Itinerant Performer
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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Original title 歌女おぼえ書
Directors Hiroshi Shimizu
Writers Taketaka Yagisawa, Kihan Nagase

Cast

Yaeko Mizutani

as Utajo

Ken Uehara

as Shôtarô Hiramatsu

Hideo Fujino

as Shôsuke Hiramatsu

Kyoko 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

Hideo Takeda

as Yamafuji

Kanji Kawahara

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