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Cast: Chikako Hosokawa, Daisuke Katô, Eitarô Ozawa, Ganjiro Nakamura, Hideko Takamine, Jun Tatara, Keiko Awaji, Ken Mitsuda, Masao Oda, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Sadako Sawamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yû Fujiki
Category: English Movies
Release: 15 January 1960
Genres: Drama
IMDB: IMDB
Added: March 9, 2011
Description:
Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki: This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged geisha who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Her family hounds her for money, her customers for her attention, and she is continually in debt. The life of a geisha is examined as well as the way in which the system traps and sometimes kills those in it.