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 | Rigorously trained in all the traditional arts, Mineko Iwasaki grew up knowing she would become a geisha. One of the great geisha stars, she writes here not only about her own life but about the geisha system itself and the finer points of being a... |
 | Pleshette's film debut was in this Lewis comedy about a clumsy magician who signs up for a USO tour of Japan and Korea. He befriends a shy Japanese boy and falls in love with his mother. Lewis fans will enjoy the sight gags and the well-known... |
| Pleshette's film debut was in this Lewis comedy about a clumsy magician who signs up for a USO tour of Japan and Korea. He befriends a shy Japanese boy and falls in love with his mother. Lewis fans will enjoy the sight gags and the well-known... |
 | Returning to the geisha life of the Gion district, director Kenji Mizoguchi offers a revisionist post-war version of his earlier SISTERS OF THE GION. Ayako Wakao stars as Eiko, the 16-year-old daughter of a recently deceased geisha, who nonetheless... |
 | Set just before the Russo-Japanese war, this tale of erotica and relationships focuses on a customer at a Geisha house who falls for one of the more experienced Geisha girls. This causes a domino effect of relationships among the other Geisha's, all... |
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 | In 1929, a poor fisherman sells his nine-year-old daughter to an elite geisha house in Kyoto. So begins the remarkable first-person account of how the lovely child, Chiyo, became the accomplished and much sought-after geisha Sayuri, with the help of... |
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