Play It Cool

でんきくらげ

1970·94'

Yasuzō Masumura

CrimeDramaAction

Japanese

Letterboxd TMDB #193763

This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.

Cast

Mari Atsumi Yumi Yūsuke Kawazu Nozawa Kō Nishimura Kada Ryoichi Tamagawa Yoshimura Tomo'o Nagai Takasaki Sanae Nakahara Madame Tomoko Mayama Kinuko Akemi Negishi Tomi Yoshihiko Aoyama Tajima Sei Hiraizumi Ishikawa Gen Kimura Kazama Yūzō Hayakawa Yamakawa