Izu no odorikko

Two part dramatisation of Nobel Prize winning author Kawabata Yasunari's semi- autobiographical short story. Set in the pre-war years, a young high school student -- the high school being the equivalent of a modern university, and any student there virtually promised an elite career -- is holidaying in the hills of Izu when he comes across a group of travelling dancers. The student and the youngest of the dancers, an innocent teenage girl, become mildly attracted to each other, but after a few days of travelling together, their ways must part.

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