Film

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

1941 · 1h 38m · Drama

IMDb

7.3

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.

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

• Hiroshi ShimizuDirector
• Kihan NagaseScreenplay
• Taketaka YagisawaScreenplay
• Gorô ÔtsujiProducer
• Suketarô InokaiDirector of Photography
• Senji ItoOriginal Music Composer
• Yoshiyasu HamamuraEditor

Release date

March 16, 1941

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Drama