Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
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Kenji Sawada
Yumeji Takehisa
Yoshio Harada
Wakiya
Tomoko Mariya
Tomoyo Wakiya
Masumi Miyazaki
Hikono
Tamasaburō Bandō V
Onshu Inamura
Kazuhiko Hasegawa
Onimatsu
Léona Hirota
Oyo
Akaji Maro
Criminal
Kimiko Yo
Jiro
Chikako Miyagi
Nanny
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
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