Flowing
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 portrays the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
Director Mikio Naruse
Cast
Isuzu Yamada
Otsuta
Chieko Nakakita
Yoneko
Natsuko Kahara
Otoyo
Kumeko Otowa
Tsurumoto maid
Mariko Okada
Nanako
Daisuke Katō
Yoneko's Ex
Yoshie Minami
Kichijirō Ueda
Kanbutsuya Owner
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
Kimono salesman
Hideko Takamine
Katsuyo
Sumiko Kurishima
Ohama
Seiji Miyaguchi
Namie's Uncle
Noboru Nakaya
Saeki, Ohama's newphew
Senkichi Ōmura
Byakuya, Chinese restaurant owner
Yutaka Sada
Rickshaw man
Kinuyo Tanaka
Rika Yamanaka / Oharu
Haruko Sugimura
Someka
Nobuo Nakamura
Doctor