"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."
Mariko Okada
as Tomoko
Nobuko Otowa
as Ikuyo
Gō Katō
as Ezaki
Kinuyo Tanaka
as Tsuna
Norihei Miki
as Hachirô
Eiji Okada
as Nozawa
Haruko Sugimura
as Taromaru
Kazuo Kitamura
as Keisuke
Bunta Sugawara
as Sugiura
Eijirō Yanagi
as Murata, the landlord
Tsutomu Matsukawa
as Ezaki's son
Masakazu Tamura
Tomoko Naraoka
as Ezaki's wife
Jun Usami
as Kannami
Kokinji Katsura
as Kimono store clerk
Suisen Ichikawa
as Proprietress
Fuyuki Murakami
as Great Uncle
Hisao Ōno
Sound
Keisuke Kinoshita
Producer
Masao Shirai
Kisaku Ito
Production Design
Ryozo Toyoshima
Gaffer
Director
Writer
Sawako Ariyoshi
Novel
Yoshi Sugihara
Editor
Hiroshi Kusuda
Director of Photography
Chūji Kinoshita
Original Music Composer