Flowing (1956)
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
Writers:
Toshiro Ide, Sumie Tanaka.
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Kinuyo Tanaka as Rika Yamanaka / Oharu |
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Isuzu Yamada as Otsuta |
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Hideko Takamine as Katsuyo |
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Mariko Okada as Nanako |
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Haruko Sugimura as Someka |
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Sumiko Kurishima as Ohama |
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Chieko Nakakita as Yoneko |
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Natsuko Kahara as Otoyo |
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Seiji Miyaguchi as Namie's Uncle |
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Daisuke Katō as Yoneko's Ex |
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Nobuo Nakamura as Doctor |
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Noboru Nakaya as Saeki, Ohama's newphew |
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Kumeko Otowa as Tsurumoto maid |
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Yoshie Minami as |
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Shin Tatsuoka as Muramatsu |
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Kichijirō Ueda as Kanbutsuya Owner |
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Fumindo Matsuo as Patrol Officer |
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Senkichi Ōmura as Byakuya, Chinese restaurant owner |
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Chiyo Izumi as Namie |
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Natsuko Matsumoto as Fujiko |
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Yasuhisa Tsutsumi as Kimono salesman |
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Yutaka Sada as Rickshaw man |
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Ichiro Tetsu as |
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Masayoshi Kawabe as Kanbutsuya clerk |
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Akemi Ueno as |
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Hideko Ebata as |
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Umekichi Kiyomoto as |
| Writing | Toshiro Ide | Screenplay |
| Writing | Aya Kōda | Novel |
| Directing | Mikio Naruse | Director |
| Production | Sanezumi Fujimoto | Producer |
| Sound | Ichirō Saitō | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Eiji Ooi | Editor |
| Art | Satoru Chūko | Production Design |
| Production | Takehiro Shimada | Production Manager |
| Directing | Masayoshi Kawanishi | Assistant Director |
| Crew | Chôshichirô Mikami | Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Chōshirō Ishii | Gaffer |
| Camera | Masao Tamai | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Sumie Tanaka | Screenplay |
