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.
Cast
Kinuyo Tanaka
Rika Yamanaka / Oharu
Isuzu Yamada
Otsuta
Hideko Takamine
Katsuyo
Mariko Okada
Nanako
Haruko Sugimura
Someka
Sumiko Kurishima
Ohama
Chieko Nakakita
Yoneko
Natsuko Kahara
Otoyo
Seiji Miyaguchi
Namie's Uncle
Daisuke Katō
Yoneko's Ex
Nobuo Nakamura
Doctor
Noboru Nakaya
Saeki, Ohama's newphew
Kumeko Otowa
Tsurumoto maid
Yoshie Minami
Unknown
Shin Tatsuoka
Muramatsu
Kichijirō Ueda
Kanbutsuya Owner
Fumindo Matsuo
Patrol Officer
Senkichi Ōmura
Byakuya, Chinese restaurant owner
Chiyo Izumi
Namie
Natsuko Matsumoto
Fujiko
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
Kimono salesman
Yutaka Sada
Rickshaw man
Ichiro Tetsu
Unknown
Masayoshi Kawabe
Kanbutsuya clerk
Akemi Ueno
Unknown
Hideko Ebata
Unknown
Umekichi Kiyomoto
Unknown
Crew
Mikio Naruse
Director
Sumie Tanaka
Writer
Toshiro Ide
Screenplay
Aya Kōda
Novel
Eiji Ooi
Editor
Masao Tamai
Director of Photography
Masayoshi Kawanishi
Assistant Director
Sanezumi Fujimoto
Producer
Satoru Chūko
Production Design
Chôshichirô Mikami
Sound Recordist
Ichirō Saitō
Original Music Composer
Chōshirō Ishii
Gaffer
Takehiro Shimada
Production Manager
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