It Is a Long Walk (2000)
Synopsis
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
Release Date: 2000-09-15
Runtime: 115 minutes
Director: Yukio Fukamachi
Top Cast
- Sayuri Yoshinaga as Aihachi
- Tetsuya Watari as
- Reiko Takashima as
- Shiho Fujimura as
- Tomoyo Harada as
- Yukari Onoe as
- Kaori Takahashi as
- Tatsuo Matsumura as
- Ittoku Kishibe as
- Toshiyuki Nagashima as
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