06 Dec 2005
Memoirs of a Geisha
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Yakuza Law
A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
Top Billed Cast
吉田輝雄 
菅原文太 
橘ますみ 
賀川ゆき絵 
片山由美子 
Yoshiko Fujita Shin'ichirô Hayashi 山本豊三 
菅井一郎 高英男 
藤木孝 Mie Hanabusa Yasuyo Iino Noriko Kuroda Reiko Mikasa Yôko Koyama 
沢彰謙 
宮内洋 
石橋蓮司 
伊藤久哉
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