Gion no kyôdai

1936 [JAPANESE]

Action / Drama

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 89% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 3305 3.3K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Kenji Mizoguchi Photo
Kenji Mizoguchi

Top cast

Taizô Fukami Photo
Taizô Fukami as Kimura
Yôko Umemura Photo
Yôko Umemura as Umekichi
Isuzu Yamada Photo
Isuzu Yamada as O-Mocha
Eitarô Shindô Photo
Eitarô Shindô as Kudo, the drygoods merchant
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638.36 MB
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Japanese 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 9 min
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1.16 GB
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Japanese 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 9 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by harwee h 8 / 10

Osaka Elegy's companion piece

Osaka Elegy's companion piece
Reviewed by william d 7 / 10

I'm detecting a pattern in Mizoguchi's films. You

I'm detecting a pattern in Mizoguchi's films. You watch the first two thirds or so of the movie wondering why you're wasting your time, then the final third takes an impressive dramatic turn that makes it all worthwhile.
Reviewed by R T 9 / 10

Watching this 1936 film in 2019 offers some

Watching this 1936 film in 2019 offers some lessons. First, that women's mistreatment by men was fully recognised and challenged this early. Second, that Mizoguchi was able to express this clearly in pre-war Japan. Oh, have we moved backwards or forwards since then? (Of course, I know that the suffragette movement was already in full flourish a century ago but worldwide progress seems slow). Two sisters living and working as geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto take opposite approaches to men. Umekichi feels an obligation to support the man who has been kind to her (as a "patron") even after his business has collapsed and his wife has left him a pauper. But Omocha feels that men are forever taking advantage of women, treating them as "playthings" and she vows to do everything she can to get back at them. The plot then involves Omocha scheming and lying and taking advantage of drunken and gullible men (who are obviously suckers to their sexual desires). Perhaps in 1936, Omocha was the villain and sympathies were aligned with Umekichi? I don't really think so, despite the fact that Omocha is (physically) punished for her actions (by a less powerful man she "cheated"). After all, Umekichi is also spurned by the man in whom she invested her care and concern. Therefore, the much more logical conclusion is that Mizoguchi is instead showing us that "women can't win" no matter whether they choose to side with men and support them or to confront men and challenge their dominance. Until power differences really do change, that is the likely reality. Of course, in 1936, the safe course was for Mizoguchi to end the film by saying the life of the geisha is hard ï¿ 1/2 but no doubt he knew that this extended to women as a group (as witnessed by all of the women suffering in his other films). Let's hope that equal rights, equal pay, etc. for women (and all gender categories) will be here soon (we will need to continue to vote wisely and to fight).
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