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
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Writing | Rei Nakanishi | Original Story |
Writing | Shin'ichi Ichikawa | Writer |
Production | Kazuto Amano | Producer |
Directing | Yukio Fukamachi | Director |
Production | Tetsuji Hayashi | Producer |
Editing | Hiroshi Miyake | Editor |
Production | Junichi Kimura | Producer |
Production | Keita Senoo | Producer |
Production | Shigefumi Morioka | Associate Producer |
Art | Yoshinobu Nishioka | Art Direction |
Camera | Tatsuo Suzuki | Director of Photography |
Sound | Michiru Oshima | Original Music Composer |