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.
Mari Atsumi
Keiko Takahashi
Eiko Yanami
Ryo Tamura
Masaya Takahashi
Toyoto Fukuda
Yoshi Katō
Tomoko Mayama
Keiko Natsu
Hisano Yamaoka
Takurou Nakayoshi
Yutaka Nakamura
Daigo Inoue
Kenji Go
Tsutomu Nakata
Misako Shimizu
Mitsuko Takesato