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The Revelation of a Geisha

1970 ★ 4.7

After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot spring resort. A

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Hot Springs Geisha

1968 ★ 3.4

A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed bus

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My Geisha

1962 ★ 6.8

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame

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A Geisha's Diary

1961 ★ 7.5

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman b

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Late Chrysanthemums

1954 ★ 7.3

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days coldly coll

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A Geisha

1953 ★ 7.5

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their profess

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Miniature

1953 ★ 7.8

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the proc

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Japanology Plus

2014 ★ 6.4

Host Peter Barakan delves into various aspects of Japanese culture; exploring practices, history, and modern innovations in such areas as ramen, rice, sushi, ge

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The Barbarian and the Geisha

1958 ★ 6.0

Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigner

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Memoirs of a Geisha

2005 ★ 7.6

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house. Drama Romance History

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Inferno of Torture

1969 ★ 5.7

Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against

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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza

1968 ★ 7.0

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time

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GeishaCop: Fearsome Geisha Corps - Go to Hell

2010 ★ 0.0

Spin-off short film to RoboGeisha, A woman infiltrates Kageno Steel Manufacturers to unravel their plot to take over Japan. Action Comedy Science Fiction Horro

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Snow Country

1957 ★ 6.7

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and i

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The Geisha Boy

1958 ★ 6.3

Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy

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Cry for Happy

1961 ★ 5.4

Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house. Romance Comedy

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Demons

1971 ★ 7.7

Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband. Horror Drama

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Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha

1971 ★ 4.2

Many persons visit the hot springs resort to try out Reiko's famous vagina with quivering walls, "the sensation of worms wiggling about"... that won her her nic

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A Woman Called Sada Abe

1975 ★ 5.5

The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student. Sada wanders the

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The World of Geisha

1973 ★ 4.7

The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shin

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John Pritchett

John Pritchett (born March 29, 1947) is an American sound engineer for film. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in Best Sound for the films Road to Pe

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Suzuka Ohgo

Ohgo began acting in 2000 when she was seven, then she joined Sunflower (Himawari), which is a theatrical company. She debuted with the company at the Meiji-za

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Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi (Chinese: 章子怡; born 9 February 1979) is a Chinese actress. Her first major role was in The Road Home (1999). She later achieved fame for her role in

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Isuzu Yamada

Isuzu Yamada (山田 五十鈴, Yamada Isuzu, 5 February 1917 – 9 July 2012) was a Japanese stage and screen actress whose career spanned seven decades. Yamada was born

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