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Ballad of Orin
Film / 1977

Ballad of Orin

Directed by Masahiro Shinoda
Drama

★ 7.2/10Audience rating

Expelled from her group for losing her virginity, blind travelling musician Orin endures a life of hardship, abuse, and poverty while wandering the countryside, finding brief companionship with an army deserter, and struggling against a society that marginalises her.

The story

Expelled from her group for losing her virginity, blind travelling musician Orin endures a life of hardship, abuse, and poverty while wandering the countryside, finding brief companionship with an army deserter, and struggling against a society that marginalises her.

Cast

Shima IwashitaOrin Yoshio HaradaHeitaro Tomoko NaraokaTeruyo Taiji TonoyamaMountain Man Tōru AbeBesho Jun HamamuraSaito Kaoru KobayashiTorazo Rie YokoyamaKaneko Hatsuo YamayaYamashita Toshiyuki NishidaSuketaro Masakazu KuwayamaManzaburo Imanishi Kirin KikiTama Ichise
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Yoshi KatōIsuke Izumi HaraOld Woman Tomoko Jinbo Mansaku Fuwa Saburo Date Teruo Matsuyama Kotoe Hatsui Sue Mitobe Fudeko Tanaka Nobuo Tsukamoto Kai Ato Shigeru Yazaki Takako MinekawaOrin as child

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