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Tsugaru Folksong

Tsugaru Folksong

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 20, 1973

Runtime

1h 43m

Genres

Drama, Romance

User Score

72%

Original Title

津軽じょんがら節

Production Companies

Art Theatre Guild, TOHO

Director

Kōichi Saitō

Description

A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to a couple arriving from Tokyo - the woman returning to her home, the man an escapee from the yakuza. The man doesn't seem to mind when the woman sells her favours to tourists at the local bar, just as she seems to take his attentions to Yuki, a blind girl, with equanimity.