Birth of a Jazz Maiden (1957)
1h 17m
Running Time
April 3, 1957Release Date
Birth of a Jazz Maiden (1957)
1h 17m
Running Time
April 3, 1957Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Chiemi Eri
Midori Kawai
Yūjirō Ishihara
Haruo Nanjô
Isamu Kosugi
Tôhô Tani
Taiji Tonoyama
Senkichi Hanamura
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Yutaka Katô
Kyōji Aoyama
Yoshihiko Katô
Masahisa Sunohara
Director
Motoo Muramatsu
Writer
Details.
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Wiki.
Jazz musume tanjō (ジャズ娘誕生, Jazu musume tanjō) is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahisa Sunohara.