Utajo oboegaki (1941)

Drama

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.

Updated May 30 2020

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Runtime: 98 mins Rating: 7.0

Cast

Shinichi Himori

Doctor

Yaeko Mizutani

Utajo

Eiko Miyoshi

Otane

Reikichi Kawamura

Kajikawa

Toshiaki Konoe

Shinge

Ken Uehara

Shôtarô Hiramatsu

Chôko Iida

Landlady

Hideko Kasuga

Ayako