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.
Utajo
Shôtarô Hiramatsu
Shôsuke Hiramatsu
Nuiko
Jirô
Kajikawa
Ayako
Monroku
Shônosuke
Koijûrô
Yamafuji
Kanekichi
Shinge
Landlady
Interpreter
Smith
Otane
Doctor