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 (1977-11-19)
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

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.

External links

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