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Rating: 7 stars

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The Lovelorn Geisha (1960)

Directed by Mikio Naruse, Yuzo Kawashima

Drama

Overview

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself ‘already dead’.

Length 111 minutes

Actors

Yôko Tsukasa | Isuzu Yamada | Akira Takarada | Tatsuya Mihashi | Yumi Shirakawa | Yoshie Mizutani | Mitsuko Kusabue | Aiko Mimasu | Fubuki Koshiji | Takashi Shimura | Yuriko Hoshi | Michiyo Yokoyama | Ryoko Koda | Etsuko Ichihara | Machiko Kitagawa | Masumi Okada | Tadao Nakamaru | Fuyuki Murakami | Kazuo Kitamura | Toki Shiozawa | Teruko Nagaoka | Kunio Ôtsuka | Kiyoshi Kodama | Jun Hongô | Isao Tsuzuki | Akira Yamada | Yasuhiko Saijô | Sôji Ubukata | Kumeko Otowa | Rikie Sanjô | Yoshiko Ieda | Rumi Konishi | Hiromi Mineoka | Mieko Kurenai | Chie Sugiura | Yoshie Kihira | Masaaki Tachibana | Masayoshi Kawabe | Masaharu Iimuro

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Programmed for the Akira Takarada celebration (his birthday + recent passing). Another Mikio Naruse I haven’t seen so I was excited when I saw it on the schedule. Solid drama with a lot more going on here than the description indicates. Takarada doesn’t have a big part here as it’s mostly focused on all the female characters. But he’s quite dapper.

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