Ballad of Orin (1977)

Original title

はなれ瞽女おりん

Directed by

Masahiro Shinoda

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 49m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A blind female minstrel travels through early 20th-century Japan, making her living by singing and playing music. The film follows her solitary journey and the hardships she faces.

melancholicslow-burnvisually lushmeditativepoignantatmosphericintimate

What happens

Ballad of Orin (Japanese: はなれ瞽女おりん, Hepburn: Hanare goze Orin) is a 1977 Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. Its alternate English-language titles are Banished Orin and Symphony in Gray. It details the life of a goze, a blind female minstrel (played by Shima Iwashita, the director's wife), in early 20th-century Japan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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