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The Geisha House

Kinji Fukasaku

Japan1999 103min 35mm Color

Synopsis

Tokiko, who has been assisting the girls for the past four years. She has dreamt of transforming herself into a Geisha to help her poor family, and now her time has come. With the guidance of the girls of Fujinoya, Tokiko will be groomed and introduced to the ways of the Geisha when she becomes a woman and makes her debut as ‘Omocha’ – ‘The Toy’.

Diretor

Kinji Fukasaku

Kinji Fukasaku is the director of Toei's legendary yakuza series, <Battles Without Honor and Humanity>. He worked as an assistant director at Toei from 1953 until 1961, when he burst into the limelight with the daring film noir, <Greed In Broad Daylight>(1961). Fukasaku worked tirelessly thereafter, often making 3 films in a year. <Battles Without Honor and Humanity> broke box office records, turned the yakuza genre upside down and placed the director in the pantheon of Japanese masters