A Geisha - Movie

In the post-war Gion district of Kyoto, the geisha Miyoharu agrees to apprentice the 16 year-old Eiko. The story follows the difficult life of Eiko as she and her mentor battle the social pressures of postwar Japan. For the geisha community, the period after World War II was a time of conflict between pre-war traditionalism with a new atmosphere of individual liberty and women’s rights. The film is as much about the social revolution taking place in 1953 occupied Japan as it is about the emotional relationship between the two women.


Cast
Michiyo Kogure - Miyoharu
Ayako Wakao - Eiko
Seizaburô Kawazu - Kusuda
Saburo Date - manishi
Sumao Ishihara - Kokichi
Midori Komatsu - Oume
Kanji Koshiba - Kanzaki
Kikue Môri - Domestic arts teacher
Chieko Naniwa - Okimi
Eitarô Shindô - Sawamoto
Ichirô Sugai - Saeki
Haruo Tanaka - Ogawa
Emiko Yanagi - Kaname

Bambino

A drama adaptation of a popular comic written by Sekiya Tetsuji. Matsumoto Jun plays the overenthusiastic protagonist from Fukuoka who comes to Tokyo with the desire to become a chef. The drama will display cooking skills and the Italian language.

Matsumoto Jun as Ban Shogo
Karina as Hibino Asuka
Sato Ryuta as Katori Nozomi
Uchida Yuki as Shishido Miyuki
Sasaki Kuranosuke as Kuwabara Atsushi
Kitamura Kazuki as Yonamine Tsukasa
Ichimura Masachika as Shishido Tekkan
Hoshan (ほっしゃん。) as Oda Toshio
Mukai Osamu (向井理) as Senoo Masashi
Komatsu Ayaka as Minakawa Kozue
Yamamoto Kei as Endo Susumu
Fukiishi Kazue as Takahashi Eri
Sasaki Takao (佐々木崇雄) as Nagai Hirokazu
Sato Yusuke as Takanashi Hiroshi
Asou Kousuke (麻生幸佑) as Shibata Kenichiro