Overview

After some fruitless career hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza, this is a neighbourhood tavern where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name...

Genres

Cast

Sachiko Chiba

Chiyo

Heihachirō Ōkawa

Ogawa

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Fusako

Tamae Kiyokawa

Madame at café

Masao Mishima

Madame's husband