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Tsugaru Folksong

Tsugaru Folksong

1973 · 103 min · ★ 6.9 · Drama, Romance

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.

Directed by Kōichi Saitō · Written by Takehiro Nakajima

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