Ballad of Orin

Ballad of Orin
Ballad of Orin
	Hanare Goze Orin (はなれ瞽女おりん)
Directed by	Masahiro Shinoda
Screenplay by	Keiji Hasebe; Masahiro Shinoda
Starring	Shima Iwashita
Cinematography	Kazuo Miyagawa
Music by	Tōru Takemitsu
Release date	November 19, 1977;
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Ballad of Orin (はなれ瞽女おりん, Hanare goze Orin) is a 1977 Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. Its alternate English-language titles are Banished Orin and Symphony in Gray.^[1]

It details the life of a goze, a blind female minstrel (played by Shima Iwashita, the director's wife), in early 20th-century Japan.^[2]

Cast

Shima Iwashita as Orin
Yoshio Harada as Heitarō - Big Man
Tomoko Naraoka as Teruyo
Taiji Tonoyama as Charcoal Man
Tōru Abe as Bessho
Jun Hamamura as Saito

Awards and nominations

2nd Hochi Film Award^[3]

Won: Best Actress - Shima Iwashita

References

^ はなれ瞽女おりんとは (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
^ "はなれ瞽女おりん" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
^ 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2010-01-26.

External links

Ballad of Orin at IMDb
はなれ瞽女おりん at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

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[1] はなれ瞽女おりんとは (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved 2021-01-26.

[2] "はなれ瞽女おりん" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 2021-01-05.

[3] 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2010-01-26.

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