Retro Cinema Classics: ‘A Geisha’ (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Though Kenji Mizoguchi has covered the plight of geisha throughout most, if not all, of his oeuvre, I don’t think I’ve seen it done in as blunt a fashion as is done here. The fit of frustration that beckoned a screamed “why” at the end of Sisters of a Gion certainly precedes and at least …