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8.1/10   213 votes
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Director:
Mikio Naruse
Writers:
Toshirô Ide (writer)
Aya Koda (novel)
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Release Date:
29 November 1985 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo... more | full synopsis
Awards:
4 wins more
User Comments:
Interesting observation of a declining trade more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Kinuyo Tanaka ... Rika Yamanaka / Oharu
Isuzu Yamada ... Otsuta
Hideko Takamine ... Katsuyo, Otsuta's daughter
Mariko Okada ... Nanako
Haruko Sugimura ... Someka
Sumiko Kurishima ... Ohama
Chieko Nakakita ... Yoneko, Otsuta's sister
Natsuko Kahara ... Otoyo, Otsuta's sister
Seiji Miyaguchi ... Namie's uncle
Daisuke Katô ... Yoneko's ex
Nobuo Nakamura
Kumeko Otowa
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Yoshie Minami
Kumeko Onba
Kichijiro Ueda
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Flowing
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Runtime:
117 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Toho Company more

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Movie Connections:
References Saikaku ichidai onna (1952) more

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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Interesting observation of a declining trade, 7 July 2007
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Author: simon-1303 from United Kingdom

This is a series of vaguely connected episodes set in and around a geisha house. Staff come and go. There are money transactions between everybody. Naruse knows this area to perfection and uses this knowledge and some tremendous actresses to portray both interesting day to day details and some of the major issues. Linked themes are the ending both of careers and of businesses in the context of a decline in the popularity of geishas and their traditional entertainment skills in post war Japan. Even less than in other Naruse films, there is little depiction of the geisha with clients and more about their 'off stage' lives.

As ever, Naruse's camera-work and editing is tremendous in capturing scenes and actions.

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