Izu no Odoriko (1974 film)

Izu no Odoriko (伊豆の踊子, "The Dancing Girl of Izu") is a 1974 romantic drama film from Japan. It was directed by Katsumi Nishikawa and starred Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura. This was the first of a series of romantic films starring the couple.

The film is based on the story The Dancing Girl of Izu by Yasunari Kawabata.

Cast

Momoe Yamaguchi as Kahoru
Tomokazu Miura as Kawashima
Jin Nakayama as Eikichi
Tomomi Satō as Chiyoko
Atsuko Ichinomiya as Nobu
Masami Shiho as Sayuko
Sayuri Ishikawa as Okimi
Nami Munakata as Yoshiko
Yoriko Tanaka as Shino
Yumiko Arisaki as Otoki
Nekohachi Edoya III as Toriya
Koenyū Sanyūtei as Kamiya
Narrated by Jūkichi Uno

Release

The film was released on 28 December 1974 in Japan.^[1]^[2]

Reception

The film was covered in a special issue of film magazine Kindai Eiga.^[3]

References

↑ "Izu no Odoriko". Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
↑ "Izu no Odoriko". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
↑ "Yamaguchi Momoe Izu no Odoriko Tokushūgō". Kindai Eiga. 15 January 1975.

External links

Izu no odoriko at the Internet Movie Database

Works by Yasunari Kawabata

Works

Novels	The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (1930) Snow Country (1935–1937), (1947) The Master of Go (1951–1954) Thousand Cranes (1949–1952) The Sound of the Mountain (1949–1954) The Lake (1954) The House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961) The Old Capital (1962) Beauty and Sadness (1964)

Short stories	"The Dancing Girl of Izu" (1926) One Arm (1964 novella) Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

Notable
adaptations

Sound of the Mountain (1954)
The Dancing Girl of Izu (1954)
Snow Country (1957)
Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963)
With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
Woman of the Lake (1966)
The Dancing Girl of Izu (1974)
Koto (1980)
Sleeping Beauty (2001)

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