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Where to watch

Criterion Channel

Overview

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 portrays the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka

Rika Yamanaka / Oharu

Isuzu Yamada

Otsuta

Hideko Takamine

Katsuyo

Mariko Okada

Nanako

Haruko Sugimura

Someka

Sumiko Kurishima

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