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Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
Release Date
November 20, 1956Runtime
117 minGenres
DramaDirected by
Mikio Naruse, Masayoshi KawanishiWritten by
Sumie TanakaScreenplay by
Toshirō IdeLanguage
JapaneseBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
Kinuyo Tanaka
Rika Yamanaka / OharuIsuzu Yamada
OtsutaHideko Takamine
KatsuyoMariko Okada
NanakoHaruko Sugimura
SomekaSumiko Kurishima
OhamaChieko Nakakita
YonekoNatsuko Kahara
OtoyoSeiji Miyaguchi
Namie's UncleDaisuke Katō
Yoneko's ExNobuo Nakamura
DoctorNoboru Nakaya
Saeki, Ohama's newphewKumeko Otowa
Tsurumoto maidYoshie Minami
Kichijirō Ueda
Kanbutsuya OwnerSenkichi Ōmura
Byakuya, Chinese restaurant ownerYasuhisa Tsutsumi
Kimono salesmanYutaka Sada
Rickshaw manImages
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