Flowing
Director Mikio Naruse
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 mother's trade in the late days of geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portrays the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
Cast
Kumeko Otowa
Tsurumoto maid
Mariko Okada
Nanako
Sumiko Kurishima
Ohama
Kichijirō Ueda
Kanbutsuya Owner
Senkichi Ōmura
Byakuya, Chinese restaurant owner
Nobuo Nakamura
Doctor
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
Kimono salesman
Yutaka Sada
Rickshaw man
Kinuyo Tanaka
Rika Yamanaka / Oharu
Isuzu Yamada
Otsuta
Chieko Nakakita
Yoneko
Yoshie Minami
Hideko Takamine
Katsuyo
Haruko Sugimura
Someka
Natsuko Kahara
Otoyo
Seiji Miyaguchi
Namie's Uncle
Daisuke Katō
Yoneko's Ex
Noboru Nakaya
Saeki, Ohama's newphew