Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Jazu musume tanjō
Watch Birth of a Jazz Maiden on FMovies. Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a young student, Katō Yutaka, who asks her to let him take her picture. The peddlers also meet a jazz band, and when Midori sings a song, teased by the band's star singer Nanjō Haruo, the band members are enraptured by her beautiful voice. She eventually joins the band and quickly becomes a popular jazz singer.
- Genre: Music
- Country: Japan
- Director: Masahisa Sunohara
- Cast: Chiemi Eri, Yūjirō Ishihara, Isamu Kosugi, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi, Taiji Tonoyama, Kyōji Aoyama, Ikuko Kimuro, Kiyoko Tange, Shintarō Kido, Shinsuke Maki, Shosei Muto, Zenji Yamada, Shirō Amakusa,