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Rating: 7 stars

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All movies seen on 04/13/2025

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Play It Cool (1970)

Directed by Yasuzô Masumura

Drama

Overview

This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha’s beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha’s pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman’s dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered…. She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.

Length 94 minutes

Actors

Mari Atsumi | Yûsuke Kawazu | Kô Nishimura | Ryoichi Tamagawa | Tomo'o Nagai | Sanae Nakahara | Tomoko Mayama | Akemi Negishi | Yoshihiko Aoyama | Sei Hiraizumi | Gen Kimura | Yûzô Hayakawa | Tsutomu Nakata | Kôichi Itô | Reiko Kasahara | Junko Yashiro | Hiroko Kai | Fumiko Murata | Takashi Nakamura | Kisao Tobita | Kenichi Tani | Jun Osanai

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

A film that lives between the lines of the pinky violence and yakuza exploitation movies of that period. It teeters that line but never crosses over. I like it because it shows how this young woman deals with a bad hand she’s dealt but manages to overcome it.

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