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Flowing
(Nagareru)

Screening on Film
Directed by Mikio Naruse .
With Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine.
Japan, 1956, 35mm, black & white, 116 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.

The film charts the decline of a geisha house as witnessed by a loyal, elderly maid (Tanaka). The proud mistress of the house, Tsutayakko (Yamada), has accumulated large debts in her efforts to maintain standards; refusing to turn her establishment into a restaurant or a brothel, Tsutayakko attempts to get in touch with a former patron to see if he might come to her aid, but the man cynically responds by sending a paltry sum he designates as "severance pay." Gradually, each woman in the house comes to realize that her way of life is drawing to a close.

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