The read
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 70% of the 363 1930s drama movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 9m.
Synopsis
A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes this, thinking that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
86 audience votes
Key crew
- Yoshikata YodaWriter
- Kenji MizoguchiDirector
- Kenji MizoguchiWriter
Cast
- Isuzu YamadaO-mocha
- Yōko UmemuraUmekichi
- Benkei ShiganoyaShimbei Furusawa
- Eitarō ShindōKudo
- Taizō FukamiKimura
- Shizuko TakizawaOchiyo
- Namiko KawashimaOemi Furusawa
- Fumio OkuraJurakudo
- Sakurako IwamaOmasa Kudô
- Somenosuke HayashiyaSadakichi
- Reiko AoiUmeryu
- Mitsuzo TachibanaTachibana the driver
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Themes
japansibling relationshipgeishaloverkyoto, japan