A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.
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After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the groc...
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to Fran...
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yea...
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this st...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
The sinister Dr. Watt has an evil scheme going—he's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning the...
Two American G.I.s visiting Tokyo find themselves mixed up with espionage, a pretty flight attendant...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. A...
Dan is a former geisha, now working as an ace pilot for the Earth Defense Troops. Her fiance was kil...
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...
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During ...
Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, L...
Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transfor...
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
Japanese gangster drama set in the exclusive Ginza district of Tokyo, following Haruka (Atsuko Sakur...