The folk group Kaguyahime released the song on September 20, 1973, named after the Kanda River

Kanda River

The stretches 24.6 km from Inokashira Park in Mitaka to the Sumida River under the Ryōgoku Bridge at the boundary of Taitō, Chūō, and Sumida. Its entire length lies within Tokyo, Japan. It drains an area of 105.0 km². The government of Japan classifies it as a Class I river.-Tributaries...

 (Kandagawa). With lyrics by Makoto Kitajō and music by Kōsetsu Minami, the single was a remix of a tune released the previous July on the album Kaguyahime Third. It was arranged by Takasuke Kida. Minami sang the lead vocal. Masahiro Takegawa played violin on the single. The lyrics reminisce over the bittersweet experiences of living with a girlfriend in a small room during Kitajō's college days. With sales of 1.6 million copies, it held the top spot on the Oricon

Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

 charts for seven weeks (including six in a row) and was Kaguyahime's greatest hit.

In 1974, Keiko Sekine

Keiko Takahashi

is a Japanese actress. Prior to marrying director Banmei Takahashi in 1982, she acted under the name . She appeared under that name in the 1981 Nikkatsu Roman Porno film Love Letter, a fictionalized account of the life of poet Mitsuharu Kaneko, which Nikkatsu hoped would appeal to both male and...

 (Takahashi) and Masao Kusakari starred in a film based on the song.

External links

• Kanda-gawa (1974) at IMDB
• Kandagawa at JMDB (in Japanese)