CAST:
Yoshio Harada (Nakasono),
Naoko Ôtani (Sono / Koine),
Toshiya Fujita (Toyojiro Aochi),
Michiyo Ohkusu (Shuko Aochi),
Kisako Makishi (Taeko Aochi)

SCRIPT:
Yôzô Tanaka (prema romanu Hyakkena Uchide)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Kazue Nagatsuka

Synopsis:
This is the first part of Suzuki’s Taisho trilogy (the other two are Kagerô-za from 1981 and Yumeji from 1991). During a holiday on the coast, university professor Aochi meets his childhood friend Nakasono, who is now a vagabond on the run from the police as a murder suspect. Aochi feels sorry for his old friend and takes him to dinner. While reminiscing about the old days, they both fall in love with the geisha Koine.

35 mm, color, 144 min