Notes of an Itinerant Performer (movie)

Name: Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Released: 1941-2-16
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Yaeko Mizutani, Ken Uehara, Hideo Fujino, Kyōko Asagiri, Haruhiko Tsuda

歌女おぼえ書

User score: 6.8
Production country: Japan
Producer: Hiroshi Shimizu
Production companies: Shochiku
Genre: Drama
Release date: 3/16/1941
Run time: 98 min.

Movie description

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.