This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged geisha who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Her family hounds her for money, her customers for her attention, and she is continually in debt. The life of a geisha is examined as well as the way in which the system traps and sometimes kills those in it.

Starring:

Chikako Hosokawa, Daisuke Katô, Eitarô Ozawa, Ganjiro Nakamura, Hideko Takamine, Jun Tatara, Keiko Awaji, Ken Mitsuda, Masao Oda, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Sadako Sawamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yû Fujiki

Genre:

Drama