Late Chrysanthemums
1954
Drama | 15 June 1954
Haruko Sugimura, Sadako Sawamura, Chikako Hosokawa
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.