Shizue Hyodo

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eventually has to part with the family after spending memorable time together.

It is a melodrama about the love story between an itinerant women and a miner, set in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, where the film was partly shot on location. (KG)