Birth of a Jazz Maiden

Birth of a Jazz Maiden (1957)

Music

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a young student, Katō Yutaka, who asks her to let him take her picture. The peddlers also meet a jazz band, and when Midori sings a song, teased by the band's star singer Nanjō Haruo, the band members are enraptured by her beautiful voice. She eventually joins the band and quickly becomes a popular jazz singer.

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  • Release Date: 1957-04-03
  • Runtime: 1h 17min
  • Director: Masahisa Sunohara

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Cast

  • Chiemi Eri

    Midori Kawai

  • Yūjirō Ishihara

    Haruo Nanjô

  • Isamu Kosugi

    Tôhô Tani

  • Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

    Yutaka Katô

  • Taiji Tonoyama

    Senkichi Hanamura

  • Kyōji Aoyama

    Yoshihiko Katô

  • Ikuko Kimuro

    Sanae

  • Kiyoko Tange

    Oyoshi

  • Shintarō Kido

    Dam Dam

  • Shinsuke Maki

    Ken

  • Shosei Muto

  • Zenji Yamada

  • Shirō Amakusa

  • Hideko Kariya

  • Masahiro Kamegai

  • Gō Kuroda

  • Michiko Sakyō

  • 日輪マコ

  • Sachiko Nishida

  • Tamami Togo

  • Yukihiko Sugi

  • Eiko Higashitani

  • Kyoko Hori

  • Ken Mishima

  • Tsuchiyasu Kinohara

  • Kōji Yashiro

  • Reiko Arai

  • Masayo Ueda

  • Kazuko Sato