It Is a Long Walk

It Is a Long Walk (2000)

Drama

Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen player and woman of great elegance. Though not especially rich, she doles out money to street kids, in particular, a pretty young flower vendor named Oyuki, who becomes Aihara's godchild of sorts. Yet when a geisha (Reiko Takashima) from a rival red-light district insults Aihara and her brethren, she fights back. Soon an all-out geisha war looms. Dapper businessman and amateur scholar Tojiro Koga (Tetsuya Watari) appears on the scene and defuses tempers -- suggesting that difference be settled through a competition of artistic abilities. Smitten with her talent and mature beauty, Koga invites Aihara to record Nagasaki folk songs before they disappear forever

Director: Yukio Fukamachi
Writer: Shin'ichi Ichikawa

Casts

	Sayuri Yoshinaga as Aihachi
	Tetsuya Watari as
	Reiko Takashima as
	Shiho Fujimura as
	Tomoyo Harada as
	Yukari Onoe as
	Kaori Takahashi as
	Tatsuo Matsumura as
	Ittoku Kishibe as
	Toshiyuki Nagashima as
	Hiroshi Katsuno as
	Keiko Utsumi as
	Ayumi Ishida as
	Kozue Ueda as
	Kinsyu Wakayagi as
	Atsuko Joraku as

Crew