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The Scent of Incense (香華, Kōge) is a 1964 Japanese drama film based on a novel by Sawako Ariyoshi and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. It was one of Kinoshita's last cinema productions before working mainly for television.
The Scent of Incense: Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. With Mariko Okada, Takeshi Katô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eiji Okada. After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
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- Drama
- Keisuke Kinoshita
- 1964-05-24
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- Mariko Okada
- Keisuke Kinoshita
- Shochiku
At 3hrs and 24mins, Scent of Incense is an epic drama that's intimate, restrained, and sorrow-filled. It chronicles the complicated relationship between a self-sacrificing daughter (Tomoko, played by Mariko Okada) and her profoundly selfish mother (Ikuyo, played by Nobuko Otowa).
- Keisuke Kinoshita
- Shochiku
A girl who was sold as a geisha finds that her mother has turned prostitute and she is unable to leave because of her lack of family. At 63 she is left alone and lonely.
Jan 9, 2020 · Spanning more than 50 years in the turbulent history of mid-20th century Japan, The Scent of Incense (香華, Koge) reverses the path of the hahamono in dramatising the complicated relationship of two women – a “selfish” mother and her “self-sacrificing” daughter who finds herself unable to give up on maternal approval despite the ...
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Overview. After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
