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.

Yaeko Mizutani
Utajo

Ken Uehara
Shôtarô Hiramatsu

Hideo Fujino
Shôsuke Hiramatsu

Kyōko Asagiri
Nuiko
Haruhiko Tsuda
Jirô

Reikichi Kawamura
Kajikawa
Hideko Kasuga
Ayako
Minpei Tomimoto
Monroku
Einosuke Naka
Shônosuke

Hiroshi Mizuhara
Koijûrô

Ryōtarō Mizushima

Hideo Takeda
Yamafuji

Kanji Kawara
Kanekichi

Toshiaki Konoe
Shinge

Chōko Iida
Landlady