Ballad of Orin
はなれ瞽女おりん (original)
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Starring Shima Iwashita, Tomoko Naraoka, Taiji Tonoyama, Tōru Abe, Jun Hamamura, Kaoru Kobayashi, Rie Yokoyama, Hatsuo Yamaya, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masakazu Kuwayama
Watch "Ballad of Orin" on Criterion Channel released in 1977. It's a drama movie, and has a rating of 7.4 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.