Flowing

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.

• based on novel or book
• widow
• geisha
• household
• tokyo, japan
• maid
• young woman
• japanese woman
• mother and daughter
• shōwa era (1926-89)
• women
• change vs tradition
• money dispute
• financial difficulties
• tradition vs modernity