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Flowing
JAPAN · 1956

Flowing

Mikio Naruse
geisha culture family business generational conflict economic hardship tradition versus modernity
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Synopsis

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.

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