It Is a Long Walk

Name: It Is a Long Walk
Genre: Drama
Released: 15 Sep 2000
Rating: 8.00
Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tetsuya Watari, Reiko Takashima, Shiho Fujimura, Tomoyo Harada

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

Year: 2000

Genre: Drama

Studio: Toei Company

Director: Yukio Fukamachi

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tetsuya Watari, Reiko Takashima, Shiho Fujimura, Tomoyo Harada, Yukari Onoe

Crew: Yukio Fukamachi (Director), Rei Nakanishi (Original Story), Shin'ichi Ichikawa (Writer), Kazuhito Amano (Producer), Tetsuji Hayashi (Producer), Junichi Kimura (Producer)

Runtime: 115 minutes

Release: Sep 15, 2000

IMDb: 8.00/10 by 1 users

Popularity: 1

Country: Japan

Language: 日本語