The Scent of Incense (1964)

05/24/1964 (JP) • 3h 23m

Drama

Overview

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.

Top Billed Cast

Mariko Okada

Tomoko

Nobuko Otowa

Ikuyo

Gō Katō

Ezaki

Kinuyo Tanaka

Tsuna

Norihei Miki

Hachirô

Eiji Okada

Nozawa

Haruko Sugimura

Taromaru

Kazuo Kitamura

Keisuke

Bunta Sugawara

Sugiura

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Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

based on novel or book

geisha

taisho period

mother and daughter

shōwa era (1926-89)

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