The Scent of Incense (1964)
Original title: 香華
The Scent of Incense is a 1964 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, with a running time of 3h 23m. It stars Mariko Okada, Nobuko Otowa and Gō Katō.
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
Cast
- Mariko Okada as Tomoko
- Nobuko Otowa as Ikuyo
- Gō Katō as Ezaki
- Kinuyo Tanaka as Tsuna
- Norihei Miki as Hachirô
- Eiji Okada as Nozawa
- Haruko Sugimura as Taromaru
- Kazuo Kitamura as Keisuke
- Bunta Sugawara as Sugiura
- Eijirō Yanagi as Murata, the landlord
- Tsutomu Matsukawa as Ezaki's son
- Masakazu Tamura as Ezaki's son