Kitakami yakyoku

Kitakami yakyoku

62 mins | Drama, Romance | May 22, 1961

Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...

Kitakami yakyoku

62 mins | Drama, Romance | May 22, 1961

Kitakami yakyoku
Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...
Producers Nikkatsu Corporation
Original title 北上夜曲
Directors Yoshitsugu Nakajima, Atsushi Fujiura
Writers Ryuma Takemori, Gan Yamazaki

Cast

Tamio Kawachi

as Keisuke Shirato

Chieko Matsubara

as Shizuko Suda

Yuji Odaka

as Ryoichi Yamada

Yoshiko Nezu

as Akiko's friend A

Yuko Minakaze

as Akiko Yokota

Keiko Akashi

as Akiko's friend C

Shosei Muto

as Tadahiko Sugimoto

Fudeko Tanaka

as Keisuke's mother

Hiroshi Chō

as Newspaper reporter

Kosuke Hisamatsu

as Keisuke's father

Ikunosuke Koizumi

as Matchmaker

Nobue Shiina

as Akiko's friend B

Ikuko Kimuro

as Akiko's friend D

Sachiko Soma

as Keisuke's aunt

Masaru Kamiyama

as Debt collector 1

Hiroshi Chiyoda

as Hot spring resort clerk

Gen Mihama

as Debt collector 2

Teruaki Toki

as Track athlete 1

Yasuo Itoga

as Track athlete 3

Akira Nakao

as Student

Takeo Ono

as Magazine company division chief

Kôji Yashiro

as Magazine company division chief