The Elusive geisha

Duration: 25

Year Published: 1976

Creator: Paramount

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A documentary portrait on the way of life of geishas in Kyoto and Tokyo. Includes informal footage of the women's cloistered existence in Kyoto and the relative freedom of Tokyo geishas in order to contrast and help to define the changes Japan has experienced in recent years. , Why do girls become geishas? What is the geisha's place in Japan's social structure? Film attempts to answer these and similar questions as the camera follows the daily activities of geishas in two different cities--Kyoto and Tokyo. Shows their cultural training, makeup and dressing rituals, elaborate costumes, and their duties as entertainers with traditional music and dancing.

Complete Record: A documentary portrait on the way of life of geishas in Kyoto and Tokyo. Includes informal footage of the women's cloistered existence in Kyoto and the relative freedom of Tokyo geishas in order to contrast and help to define the changes Japan has experienced in recent years. , Why do girls become geishas? What is the geisha's place in Japan's social structure? Film attempts to answer these and similar questions as the camera follows the daily activities of geishas in two different cities--Kyoto and Tokyo. Shows their cultural training, makeup and dressing rituals, elaborate costumes, and their duties as entertainers with traditional music and dancing.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.