Notes of an Itinerant Performer

Overview

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.

Cast

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