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.

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani, Ken Uehara, Hideo Fujino, Kyōko Asagiri, Haruhiko Tsuda, Reikichi Kawamura, Hideko Kasuga, Minpei Tomimoto

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.