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.
Director and cast
- Mikio Naruse Director
- Kinuyo Tanaka as Rika Yamanaka / Oharu
- Isuzu Yamada as Otsuta
- Hideko Takamine as Katsuyo
- Mariko Okada as Nanako
- Haruko Sugimura as Someka
- Sumiko Kurishima as Ohama
- Chieko Nakakita as Yoneko, Otsuta's sister
- Natsuko Kahara as Otoyo, Otsuta's sister
- Seiji Miyaguchi Cast
- Daisuke Katō Cast
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