Hot Springs Geisha(1968)

Name: Hot Springs Geisha
Director: Teruo Ishii
Released: 1968-06-28
Rating: 2.2
Cast: Masumi Tachibana, Yōko Mihara, Yukie Kagawa, Oh Ranfan, Miyuki Takakura

06/28/1968 (US)Drama1h 32m

2.2

Overview

A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed businessmen and providing bawdy entertainment through the evening followed by private companionship at night, interspersed with occasional catfights with the rival geisha house. Their routine is suddenly thrown off by the appearance of an abandoned baby in the geishas' dormitory, followed by its disappearance only a short time later. Who could be responsible for such a thing?

Teruo Ishii

Director

Teruo Ishii

Screenplay

Kōzō Uchida

Screenplay

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Part of the Hot Springs Geisha Collection

Toei's film series about Hot Springs Geisha. Onsen geisha (温泉芸者) is the Japanese term geisha working in onsen (hot spring) resorts or towns, known for their traditions of performance and entertainment style, which differ significantly to geisha working in other areas of Japan. Historically, the term "onsen geisha" has held mostly negative connotations with sex work, and has come to be synonymous with "sex worker" for a number of reasons, despite sex work being made illegal in Japan in the 1950s. Despite connotations of low standards of performing arts, modern onsen geisha hold the same training in the arts as geisha from other regions of Japan.