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It Is a Long Walk

7.520001h 55mMovieDrama

Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen…

DirectorYukio Fukamachi
WriterShin'ichi Ichikawa
ProducersKazuhito Amano·Tetsuji Hayashi

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Cast · Directed by Yukio Fukamachi

SYSayuri Yoshinaga
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Aihachi
TWTetsuya Watari
Tetsuya Watari
RTReiko Takashima
Reiko Takashima
SFShiho Fujimura
Shiho Fujimura
THTomoyo Harada
Tomoyo Harada
YOYukari Onoe
Yukari Onoe
KTKaori Takahashi
Kaori Takahashi
TMTatsuo Matsumura
Tatsuo Matsumura
IKIttoku Kishibe
Ittoku Kishibe
TNToshiyuki Nagashima
Toshiyuki Nagashima
HKHiroshi Katsuno
Hiroshi Katsuno
KU
Keiko Utsumi

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