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 portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
Kinuyo Tanaka | Rika Yamanaka / Oharu |
Isuzu Yamada | Otsuta |
Mariko Okada | Nanako |
Haruko Sugimura | Someka |
Sumiko Kurishima | Ohama |
Chieko Nakakita | Yoneko, Otsuta's sister |
Natsuko Kahara | Otoyo, Otsuta's sister |
Hideko Takamine | Katsuyo, Otsuta's daughter |
Seiji Miyaguchi | Namie's uncle |
Daisuke Katō | Yoneko's ex |
Nobuo Nakamura | |
Kumeko Otowa |