Satoshi Kisaragi

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for themselves, and are taught language, music, and sewing. While there the young girl slowly begins to form friendships and come out of her shell.

A 1943 film.

粗忽者だが、人助けが唯一の楽しみという仙台藩の純情家臣・磯川兵助。公儀の難題と勝負してどんな手柄をたてるのやら…。戦争真っ只中に封切られた作品であるが、エノケンは相変わらず持ち前のおかしさを発揮し、ロケ撮影のシーンの広々とした感じや馬が疾走する場面などセットの豪華さは、今の映画より豊かな印象を訴えてくる。

The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone in a fishermen's village. She is a strong-minded girl and very popular among young children. I guess that this story is one of the origins of girl's manga in the 1950s in which I belonged to the first generation of Japanese story manga.

While returning by boat to Japan, Yoshie Fujiwara meets a rich woman who suggests him to become a singer thanks to an impresario friend of hers.