Ballad of Orin (1977)
はなれ瞽女おりん
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.
- Date of release
- 1977-11-19
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (24)
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Masahiro Shinoda
Casting
- Shima Iwashita — Orin
- Yoshio Harada — Heitaro
- Tomoko Naraoka — Teruyo
- Taiji Tonoyama — Mountain Man
- Tōru Abe — Besho
- Jun Hamamura — Saito
- Kaoru Kobayashi — Torazo
- Rie Yokoyama — Kaneko
- Hatsuo Yamaya — Yamashita
- Toshiyuki Nishida — Suketaro
- Masakazu Kuwayama — Manzaburo Imanishi
- Kirin Kiki — Tama Ichise
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