Kitakami Nocturne

Kitakami Nocturne (1961) is a romance, drama film directed by Yoshitsugu Nakajima.

Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...

Cast

Tamio Kawachi

Keisuke Shirato

Chieko Matsubara

Shizuko Suda

Yuji Odaka

Ryoichi Yamada

Hiroshi Kondō

Yoshiko Nezu

Akiko's friend A

Yuko Minakaze

Akiko Yokota

Keiko Akashi

Akiko's friend C

Shosei Muto

Tadahiko Sugimoto

Fudeko Tanaka

Keisuke's mother

Hiroshi Chō

Newspaper reporter

Kosuke Hisamatsu

Keisuke's father

Ikunosuke Koizumi

Matchmaker