
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.
Top Billed Cast

Yaeko Mizutani
Utajo

Ken Uehara
Shôtarô Hiramatsu

Hideo Fujino
Shôsuke Hiramatsu

Kyōko Asagiri
Nuiko
Haruhiko Tsuda
Jirô
Featured Crew

Hiroshi Shimizu
Director
Gorô Ôtsuji
Producer
Suketarô Inokai
Director of Photography
Yoshiyasu Hamamura
Editor
Minoru Esaka
Art Direction
Senji Itô
Original Music Composer
Kihan Nagase
Screenplay
Taketaka Yagisawa
Screenplay
Takenori Mori
Sound Recordist