With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.

• TOHO
• Haruko Sugimura
• Sadako Sawamura
• Chikako Hosokawa
• Yūko Mochizuki
• Ken Uehara
• Hiroshi Koizumi
• Ineko Arima
• Bontarō Miake