The Scent of Incense
香華
1964 · 3h 23m · Drama · Japan
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.
Written & directed by
Keisuke KinoshitaBased on the novel by
Sawako Ariyoshi6.2Smart score
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based on novel or bookgeishamother and daughtershōwa era (1926-89)taisho period
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