Chikuzan hitori tabi
After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s the rough-hewn blind shamisien player and folk-song collector named Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biographical drama chronicles his wanderings an...
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"Written, directed and independently produced by Kaneto Shindo this outstanding film is an absorbing biopic of renowned musician & composer Takahashi Chikuzan. Opening the film, shamisen in hand, the elderly musician recalls his past & the cause of his childhood blindness. A naturally gifted musician, his fate & destiny, a life as a beggar on a wandering musical path. Shifting from a brief documentary style opening, interweaving re-enactments reveal the past, & eventually form to dramatize the compelling life story of Takahashi Chikuzan. Criss-crossing Japan, his travels from ho..."
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After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s the rough-hewn blind shamisien player and folk-song collector named Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biographical drama chronicles his wanderings an...