Late Chrysanthemums

Jun 15, 1954

1h 41m

★ 7.3

Overview

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

TOHO

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Cast

Kin

Haruko Sugimura

Nobu

Sadako Sawamura

Tamae

Chikako Hosokawa

Tomi

Yūko Mochizuki

Tabe

Ken Uehara

Kiyoshi

Hiroshi Koizumi

Sachiko

Ineko Arima

Seki

Bontarō Miake

Itaya

Daisuke Katō

Haruna Kaburagi

Yoshiko Tsubouchi

Yaeko Izumo

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

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