Yumi Ishikawa (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen and a popular geisha. Orphaned when a child, Yumi she was raised by Shizuko, the madame of a geisha house. Yumi is impulsive, out-going. And although she cannot claim to be good at Japanese dancing or playing musical instruments so necessary to a geisha, she is a whizz at go-go and will dance the hula at parties. But before becoming a full-fledged geisha, Yumi must go through the ceremony of the "mizuage", when a budding geisha surrenders her virginity to an experienced man who makes her a woman. Takida, a rich money-lender, is chosen for Yumi's mizuage but she offers herself first to Keiichi (Ryo Tamura), who she really loves although she knows that his world and hers are too far apart for a successful marriage.
as Yumi Ishikawa
as Setsuko
as Nakako
as Keiichi Tsumura
as Matsuzaki
as Tetsuya Takita
as Takita
as Kikuchiyo
as Hatsuko
as Shizuko
as Sekizawa
as Manager
as Adachi
as Rikiya
as Hairdresser
