19 November 1977 Drama 118 mins
Expelled from her group for losing her virginity, blind travelling musician Orin endures a life of hardship, abuse, and poverty while wandering the countryside, finding brief companionship with an army deserter, and struggling against a society that marginalises her.
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Shima Iwashita as Orin
Yoshio Harada as Heitaro
Tomoko Naraoka as Teruyo
Taiji Tonoyama as Mountain Man
Tōru Abe as Besho
Jun Hamamura as Saito
Kaoru Kobayashi as Torazo
Rie Yokoyama as Kaneko
Hatsuo Yamaya as Yamashita
Toshiyuki Nishida as Suketaro
Masakazu Kuwayama as Manzaburo Imanishi
Kirin Kiki as Tama Ichise
Yoshi Katō as Isuke
Izumi Hara as Old Woman
Masahiro Shinoda Director
Kiyoshi Awazu Art Direction
Sachiko Yamaji Editor
Kazuo Miyagawa Director of Photography
Toru Takemitsu Original Music Composer
Kiyoshi Nonomura Producer
Hideo Nishizaki Sound
Keiji Hasebe Screenplay
Masahiro Shinoda Screenplay
Tsutomu Mizukami Novel
Orine, la proscrite Trailer
Hanare goze Orin Trailer
오린의 노래 Trailer
Banished Trailer
Banished Orin Trailer
Japan 19 November 1977
United States 01 October 1978
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Song starts at 0:48 Film about a travelling goze or blind shamisen 三味線 player in early 20th-century Japan. Song: "Toru Takemitsu-Music from Banished Orin"
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