Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work in the geisha house run by her aunt. The daughter of a once great geisha, Mugiko is entitled by blood to train in the geishas ancient art of classical Japanese song and dance.
Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this st...
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he a...
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanes...
Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed ...
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Kat...
Japanese gangster drama set in the exclusive Ginza district of Tokyo, following Haruka (Atsuko Sakur...
In a continuation of "Utopia: Midnight Story, White Flower Bud" Haruka Ichijou follows through in he...
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...
Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to th...
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th centu...
Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of O...
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she stru...
Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "pr...
Japan around 1860: popular courtesan Asagiri will be freed soon from her service, yet she cannot ima...
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mothe...