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Sisters of the Gion (1936)

A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes this, thinking that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them.

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Jack G 25 Mar 2011

one of those films where it's pretty good for most of it (and it's a short feature-length film really) and in the last ten minutes it shows its true colors. some of the dialog is a little too on-the-nose, but the direction really carries so much of this through with deep focus and long takes and compositions that make me giddy as I sit there at serious subject matter like pre-WW2 Japanese Feminism.

Meredith D 22 Jan 2010

Kenji Mizoguchi is my favorite Japanese director. For that reason, I wanted to love the "Fallen Women" collection released by Criterion. I've been a bit underwhelmed thus far (this is the second of the four for me), but perhaps I am being unfair. I can't help but stack these short films up against such cinematic greatness as Sanshô dayû and Ugetsu monogatari. However, I give Mizoguchi due props for creating a collection of films that highlight the various plights of post-war Japanese women.

Mychal S 29 Nov 2007

Some good visuals, pretty good story. Eh, it was alright.

Trill F 12 Aug 2009

A kindhearted geisha takes in a former client who has fallen on hard times, prompting her younger sister to seek wealthy patronage by fair means or foul. Who will prosper, the generous or the greedy sister? Well, neither one actually, which is precisely the point that Mizoguchi is making here: honourable or selfish, the geisha will be exploited just the same; she cannot win. The ending, a passionate tirade against the continuing existence of geisha girls in Japanese society, is bleak and powerful, but the male bad behaviour that sets it up feels a mite forced and unconvincing, out of character even. The two women are great though, especially Omocha (Isuzu Yamada), the younger sister, whose femme fatale-like duplicity drives the narrative. Lovely camerawork.

Spencer P 15 Dec 2016

Another expertly filmed working-class entry in Kenji Mizoguchi's filmography, though it comes with a more run-of-the-mill, partially unsatisfactory story.