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Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen player and woman of great elegance. Though not especially rich, she doles out money to street kids, in particular, a pretty young flower vendor named Oyuki, who becomes Aihara's godchild of sorts. Yet when a geisha (Reiko Takashima) from a rival red-light district insults Aihara and her brethren, she fights back. Soon an all-out geisha war looms. Dapper businessman and amateur scholar Tojiro Koga (Tetsuya Watari) appears on the scene and defuses tempers -- suggesting that difference be settled through a competition of artistic abilities. Smitten with her talent and mature beauty, Koga invites Aihara to record Nagasaki folk songs before they disappear forever
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Aihachi
Tetsuya Watari
Reiko Takashima
Shiho Fujimura
Tomoyo Harada
Yukari Onoe
Kaori Takahashi
Tatsuo Matsumura
Ittoku Kishibe
Toshiyuki Nagashima
Hiroshi Katsuno
Keiko Utsumi
Ayumi Ishida
Kozue Ueda
Kinsyu Wakayagi
Atsuko Jōraku
Director
Yukio Fukamachi
Original Story
Rei Nakanishi
Writer
Shin'ichi Ichikawa
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Status:
Released
Original Language:
Japanese
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