Flowing

Flowing

117 mins | Drama | Nov. 20, 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 mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

Flowing

117 mins | Drama | Nov. 20, 1956

Flowing
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 mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Toho Company, Ltd.
Original title 流れる
Directors Masayoshi Kawanishi, Mikio Naruse
Writers Sumie Tanaka, Aya Koda, Toshirō Ide

Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka

as Rika Yamanaka / Oharu

Isuzu Yamada

as Otsuta

Hideko Takamine

as Katsuyo, Otsuta's daughter

Mariko Okada

as Nanako

Haruko Sugimura

as Someka

Sumiko Kurishima

as Ohama

Chieko Nakakita

as Yoneko, Otsuta's sister

Natsuko Kahara

as Otoyo, Otsuta's sister

Seiji Miyaguchi

as Namie's uncle

Daisuke Katō

as Yoneko's ex