Ballad of Orin (1978)

  • NR
  • 10/01/1978 (US)
  • Drama
  • 1h 58m

Overview

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

Masahiro Shinoda

Director, Screenplay

Keiji Hasebe

Screenplay

Tsutomu Mizukami

Novel

Cast

Shima Iwashita's headshot

Shima Iwashita

Orin
Yoshio Harada's headshot

Yoshio Harada

Heitaro
Tomoko Naraoka's headshot

Tomoko Naraoka

Teruyo
Taiji Tonoyama's headshot

Taiji Tonoyama

Mountain Man
Tōru Abe's headshot

Tōru Abe

Besho
Jun Hamamura's headshot

Jun Hamamura

Saito
Kaoru Kobayashi's headshot

Kaoru Kobayashi

Torazo
Rie Yokoyama's headshot

Rie Yokoyama

Kaneko

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