Flowing (1956)
Nagareru
117 min
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.
- Release date
- November 20, 1956
- Country of origin
- Japan
Where to watch
Subscription
Criterion Channel
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Cast
- Kinuyo Tanaka as Rika Yamanaka
- Isuzu Yamada as Otsuta
- Hideko Takamine as Katsuyo, Otsuta's daughter
- Mariko Okada as Nanako
- Haruko Sugimura as Someka
- Sumiko Kurishima as Ohama
- Chieko Nakakita as Yoneko, Otsuta's sister
- Natsuko Kahara as Otoyo, Otsuta's sister
- Seiji Miyaguchi as Namie's uncle
- Daisuke Katō as Yoneko's ex
- Nobuo Nakamura as Doctor
- Noboru Nakaya as Saeki, Ohama's newphew
- Kumeko Otowa as Tsurumoto maid
- Yoshie Minami
- Shin Tatsuoka as Muramatsu
- Kichijirō Ueda as Kanbutsuya Owner
- Fumindo Matsuo as Patrol Officer
- Senkichi Ōmura as Byakuya, Chinese restaurant owner
- Yutaka Sada as Rickshaw man
- Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu
Crew
- Mikio Naruse · Director
- Toshirō Ide · Writer
- Aya Kôda · Writer
- Sumie Tanaka · Writer
- Sanezumi Fujimoto · Producer
- Ichirō Saitō · Composer
- Masao Tamai · Cinematographer
- Eiji Ooi · Editor
- Satoru Chûko · Production designer