It Is a Long Walk

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

Main Cast

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Aihachi

Age : 79 | Popularity : 6%

Tetsuya Watari

Age : 78 | Popularity : 10%

Reiko Takashima

Age : 59 | Popularity : 7%

Shiho Fujimura

Age : 85 | Popularity : 5%

Tomoyo Harada

Age : 56 | Popularity : 4%

Murasaki Onoue

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Kaori Takahashi

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Tatsuo Matsumura

Age : 90 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Director of Photography	Tatsuo Suzuki
Sound	Music	Michiru Oshima
Production	Producer	Tetsuji Hayashi Kazuto Amano Junichi Kimura Keita Senoo
	Associate Producer	Shigefumi Morioka
Art	Art Direction	Yoshinobu Nishioka
Writing	Writer	Shin'ichi Ichikawa
	Original Story	Rei Nakanishi
Directing	Director	Yukio Fukamachi
Editing	Editor	Hiroshi Miyake
Department	Role	Name

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