Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omocha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the geisha life as a way to lift her poverty-stricken family from their hand-to-mouth existence. Through her eyes, we see the protocols and complex financial relationships which dictate the running of the geisha house. Fukasaku's film is a work of great delicacy with moments of hypnotic beauty, and his tender direction, often touched with a sense of wonder, fills the screen with lovingly constructed scenes. At its heart is the poignant situation of the women who must sacrifice their normal relationships to live an ambiguous life in which they are a key part of society while being kept, for the most part, on its periphery, like perpetual mistresses.
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Maki Miyamoto as Tokiko aka Omocha
Sumiko Fuji as Satoe
Mai Kitajima as Somemaru
Masahiko Tsugawa as Yoshikawa
Kaho Minami as Terucho
Yumiko Nogawa as Michiko
Mariko Okada as Hanaman's owner
Takeshi Katō as Kitayama
Noboru Mitani as Mikami
Naomasa Musaka as Kayama
Takashi Sasano as Kosaka
Seizō Fukumoto as Police detective
Ryoko Gi as
Chinatsu Izumi as
Yasuyo Matsumura as Tokiko's mother
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