Jongara

IMDb link: 0070839
IMDb rating: 7.1 (136 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Kôichi Saitô
Cast: Ko Nishimura, Kyoko Enami, Akira Oda, Mihoko Nakagawa and others

Release date: 20 Dec 1973
Release year: 1973
Runtime: 103 minutes
Country: Japan
Keywords: japanese man, shamisen, village, fisherman, blind girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship

Plot:

The newcomers to a fishing village are a man who is escaping the gangsters after him and his girlfriend who is returning to her hometown. This may be as safe a place as any to lie low. Bored and fretting at first the couple find preoccupation in opposite ways. One settles in and becomes part of the community. The other picks up corruption and becomes a betrayer.

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