A Geisha
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- Drama
Overview
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishness and ambition of several petty people.
Keywords
- coming of age
- japan
- teacher student relationship
- debt
- dignity
- geisha
- kyoto
- post war
- biting
- post war japan
- japanese culture
- father daughter estrangement
- maiko
- apprenticeship
- shōwa era (1926-89)
- women's struggle
- master apprentice relationship
- kyoto, japan
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 12, 1953
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Daiei Film
- Cast
- Teruko Ōmi,Kyōko Hisamatsu,Noriko Ueda,Kazuko Maeda,Kikue Mōri,Ryusuke Maki,Keiko Koyanagi,Tokiko Mita,Nobuko Tanei,Eitarō Shindōand 16 more
- Director
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Producer
- Hisakazu Tsuji
- Cinematography
- Kazuo Miyagawa
- Music
- Ichirō Saitō
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0045814