April 11, 1970

Notes Of An Itinerant Performer (1941) **

A Hiroshi Shimizu "hahamono" film that feels like it was based on a script rejected by Kenji Mizoguchi. The actual script was written by Taketaka Yagisawa and Kihan Nagase (who did a far better job on Shimizu's later film, "Sayon's Bell").