A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes this, thinking that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them.
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Isuzu Yamada as O-mocha
Yōko Umemura as Umekichi
Benkei Shiganoya as Shimbei Furusawa
Eitarō Shindō as Kudo
Taizō Fukami as Kimura
Shizuko Takizawa as Ochiyo
Fumio Okura as Jurakudo
Reiko Aoi as Umeryu
Masaichi Nagata Producer
Yoshikata Yoda Writer
Tazuko Sakane Editor
Kazuo Kishi Gaffer
Kenji Mizoguchi Director
Kenji Mizoguchi Writer
Kōichi Takagi Assistant Director
Aleksandr Kuprin Novel
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Les Soeurs de Gion Trailer
Gion no kyōdai Trailer
Hai Chị Em Phố Kỳ Viên Trailer
Argentina 08 August 2001
Hong Kong 04 December 2004
Japan 15 October 1936
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Sisters of the Gion full hd movie trailer.
Mizoguchi's first commercial and critical success is a story of two geisha sisters -- Emekichi a submissive traditionalist and the fiercely independent Omocha.
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Cast: Isuzu Yamada Yôko Umemura Benkei Shiganoya Eitarô Shindô Sakurako Iwama Taizô Fukami Fumio Okura.
祇園の姉妹 (Gion no Shimai) - Sisters of the Gion (1936) english subtitles aka „Gion no Kyodai 70 mins -- drama Director: Kenji Mizoguchi 溝口健二 .
Masaichi Nagata Yoshikata Yoda Isuzu Yamada and Eitaro Shindo discuss working on Kenji Mizoguchi's Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejî) (Japan 1936) and Sisters ...
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12 November 1936
The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate.
28 February 1936
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.
14 November 1936
Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Harrison (Kane Richmond).
19 June 1936
An Educational Pictures comedy starring the husband and wife team of Tim and Irene Ryan.
15 June 1936
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
01 December 1936
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
18 January 1936
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10 October 1936
An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.
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A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield.
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03 November 1936
An amusing comedy taken from the repertoire of the great Sicilian comedian Angelo Musco and vaguely inspired by the case of the scatter – brain of Collegno: a man who has run away from his henpecking wife is welcomed by a rich woman who has mistaken him for her missing husband.
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