Flowing
7.2(34) 1956-11-20 117 minDrama
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.
Original Music ComposerIchirō Saitō
ScreenplayToshiro Ide
DirectorMikio Naruse
ProducerSanezumi Fujimoto
ScreenplaySumie Tanaka
Cast & characters
Kinuyo Tanaka
as Rika Yamanaka / Oharu
Isuzu Yamada
as Otsuta
Hideko Takamine
as Katsuyo
Mariko Okada
as Nanako
Haruko Sugimura
as Someka
Sumiko Kurishima
as Ohama
Chieko Nakakita
as Yoneko
Natsuko Kahara
as Otoyo
Seiji Miyaguchi
as Namie's Uncle
Daisuke Katō
as Yoneko's Ex
Nobuo Nakamura
as Doctor
Noboru Nakaya
as Saeki, Ohama's newphew
Kumeko Otowa
as Tsurumoto maid
Yoshie Minami
as —
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Shin Tatsuoka
as Muramatsu
Kichijirō Ueda
as Kanbutsuya Owner
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Fumindo Matsuo
as Patrol Officer
Senkichi Ōmura
as Byakuya, Chinese restaurant owner
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Chiyo Izumi
as Namie
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Natsuko Matsumoto
as Fujiko
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
as Kimono salesman
Yutaka Sada
as Rickshaw man
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Ichiro Tetsu
as —
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Masayoshi Kawabe
as Kanbutsuya clerk
