Sayuri Yoshinaga
Aihachi
Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen player and woman of great elegance. Though not especially rich, she doles out money to street kids, in particular, a pretty young flower vendor named Oyuki, who becomes Aihara's godchild of sorts. Yet when a geisha (Reiko Takashima) from a rival red-light district insults Aihara and her brethren, she fights back. Soon an all-out geisha war looms. Dapper businessman and amateur scholar Tojiro Koga (Tetsuya Watari) appears on the scene and defuses tempers -- suggesting that difference be settled through a competition of artistic abilities. Smitten with her talent and mature beauty, Koga invites Aihara to record Nagasaki folk songs before they disappear forever
Release Date | 2000-09-15 |
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Runtime | 1h 55m |
Directors | Yukio Fukamachi, Tatsuo Suzuki |
Producers | Kazuto Amano, Tetsuji Hayashi, Junichi Kimura, Keita Senoo, Shigefumi Morioka |
Writers | Rei Nakanishi, Shin'ichi Ichikawa |