Film

Birth of a Jazz Maiden

1957 · 1h 17m · Music

IMDb

6.0

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.

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

• Masahisa SunoharaDirector
• Motoo MuramatsuWriter
• Masaki TsujiWriter
• Shinsaku HimedaDirector of Photography
• Yoshio MurayamaOriginal Music Composer
• Tadashi NakamuraEditor

Release date

April 3, 1957

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 17m

Genres

Music