The Rambler Goes North

Original title: 北帰行より　渡り鳥北へ帰る

Directed by Buichi Saitō

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.