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Name: Nagareru
Genre: Drama
Released: 1985-11-29
Duration: 1 h 57 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine

Original title: Nagareru

1956
1h 57m

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

1.2K

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Drama

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 wi... Read allOtsuta 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 cust... Read allOtsuta 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.

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

1.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins

Trivia
Kinuyo Tanaka in this film portrays a character by the name of Oharu. In 1952, she starred in the Kenji Mizoguchi internationally acclaimed film "The Life of Oharu" in which she played the titular tragic heroine, also named Oharu.

Connections
References The Life of Oharu (1952)

User reviews6

Review

Featured review

8/10

Interesting observation of a declining trade

This is a series of vaguely connected episodes set in and around a geisha house. Staff come and go. There are money transactions between everybody. Naruse knows this area to perfection and uses this knowledge and some tremendous actresses to portray both interesting day to day details and some of the major issues. Linked themes are the ending both of careers and of businesses in the context of a decline in the popularity of geishas and their traditional entertainment skills in post war Japan. Even less than in other Naruse films, there is little depiction of the geisha with clients and more about their 'off stage' lives.

As ever, Naruse's camera-work and editing is tremendous in capturing scenes and actions.