Directed by:
Kenji MizoguchiCinematography:
Kazuo MiyagawaComposer:
Toshirô MayuzumiPlots(1)
Uwasa no Onna offers a contrasting portrait of attitudes and mores concerning love and relationships. Set in a modern Kyoto geisha house, the eponymous woman in the rumour is Hatsuko (Kinuyo Tanaka, star of countless Mizoguchi films, in her last role for the director with whom she was often romantically linked), madame of her own geisha house. When Hatsuko ends up pursuing the same man as her daughter, Yukiko (Yoshiko Kuga), both women are forced to confront their attitudes towards each other and the family business. (Eureka Entertainment)
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Kinuyo Tanaka
Japan
Best movies:
Red Beard (1965)
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Ballad of Narayama (1958)
Haruo Tanaka
Japan
Best movies:
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Yoshiko Kuga
Japan
Best movies:
Equinox Flower (1958)
Good Morning (1959)
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進藤英太郎
Japan
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Revenge (1964)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
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伊達三郎
Japan
Best movies:
Revenge (1963)
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Michiko Ai
Best movies:
Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955)
Orgies of Edo (1969)