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
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