Oct 15, 1936
69 min
Full-HD

Sisters of the Gion (1936)

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She thinks that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. Omocha therefore tries various schemes to get rid of Furusawa, and set themselves up with better patrons.

Category

Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Daiichi Eiga

Isuzu Yamada

O-mocha

Yōko Umemura

Umekichi

Benkei Shiganoya

Shimbei Furusawa

Namiko Kawashima

Oemi Furusawa

Fumio Okura

Jurakudo

Taizō Fukami

Kimura

Eitarō Shindō

Kudo

Sakurako Iwama

Omasa Kudô

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