Considered to be one of the best Japanese films of the '70s, Tatsumi Kumashiro's "The World of Geisha" is a keen examination of the swirling nexus and that attracts sex to money and money to power. Set at a geisha house just before the Russo-Japanese War, a beautiful geisha spends the night with a first time customer who is about to be married. As an experienced geisha, she is not suppose to becomes personally involved (or sexually excited) but does anyway. Her fellow geishas, both young and old, become entangled in a variety of relationships as Kumashiro boldly analyzes the politics of the period using images of rice riots, Korean uprisings and the eventual Japanese invasion of Siberia. Includes Original Theatrical Trailer and Filmography, Trailers, NTSC