06 Sep 2003
Zatoichi
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
The Geisha House
Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omocha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the geisha life as a way to lift her poverty-stricken family from their hand-to-mouth existence. Through her eyes, we see the protocols and complex financial relationships which dictate the running of the geisha house. Fukasaku's film is a work of great delicacy with moments of hypnotic beauty, and his tender direction, often touched with a sense of wonder, fills the screen with lovingly constructed scenes. At its heart is the poignant situation of the women who must sacrifice their normal relationships to live an ambiguous life in which they are a key part of society while being kept, for the most part, on its periphery, like perpetual mistresses.
Top Billed Cast
宮本真希 Tokiko aka Omocha
富司純子 Satoe
喜多嶋舞 Somemaru
津川雅彦 Yoshikawa
南果歩 Terucho
野川由美子 Michiko
岡田茉莉子 Hanaman's owner
加藤武 Kitayama
三谷昇 Mikami
六平直政 Kayama
笹野高史 Kosaka
福本清三 Police detective
魏涼子 Chinatsu Izumi Yasuyo Matsumura Tokiko's mother
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