It Is a Long Walk (2000)
1h 55m
Running Time
September 15, 2000Release Date
It Is a Long Walk (2000)
1h 55m
Running Time
September 15, 2000Release Date
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Plot.
Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen player and woman of great elegance. Though not especially rich, she doles out money to street kids, in particular, a pretty young flower vendor named Oyuki, who becomes Aihara's godchild of sorts. Yet when a geisha (Reiko Takashima) from a rival red-light district insults Aihara and her brethren, she fights back. Soon an all-out geisha war looms. Dapper businessman and amateur scholar Tojiro Koga (Tetsuya Watari) appears on the scene and defuses tempers -- suggesting that difference be settled through a competition of artistic abilities. Smitten with her talent and mature beauty, Koga invites Aihara to record Nagasaki folk songs before they disappear forever
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Cast & Crew.
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Aihachi (Matsuo, Sada)
Tetsuya Watari
Gakusha (Koga, Jûjirô)
Reiko Takashima
Actress
Shiho Fujimura
Actress
Yukio Fukamachi
Director
Shin'ichi Ichikawa
Writer
Rei Nakanishi
Writer
Kazuto Amano
Producer
Tetsuji Hayashi
Producer
Tetsuji Hayashi
Producer
Junichi Kimura
Producer
Tatsuo Suzuki
Director of Photography
Michiru Oshima
Music
Yoshinobu Nishioka
Art Direction
Keita Senoo
Producer
Shigefumi Morioka
Associate Producer
Details.
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