Just for You

Just for You — Plot

Yumi Ishikawa (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen and a popular geisha. Orphaned when a child, Yumi she was raised by Shizuko, the madame of a geisha house. Yumi is impulsive, out-going. And although she cannot claim to be good at Japanese dancing or playing musical instruments so necessary to a geisha, she is a whizz at go-go and will dance the hula at parties. But before becoming a full-fledged geisha, Yumi must go through the ceremony of the "mizuage", when a budding geisha surrenders her virginity to an experienced man who makes her a woman. Takida, a rich money-lender, is chosen for Yumi's mizuage but she offers herself first to Keiichi (Ryo Tamura), who she really loves although she knows that his world and hers are too far apart for a successful marriage.

• Release date
• December 25, 1970
• Runtime
• 83 min
• Director
• Yoshio Inoue

Just for You — Cast

Mari Atsumi Yumi Ishikawa Keiko Takahashi Setsuko Eiko Yanami Nakako Ryo Tamura Keiichi Tsumura Masaya Takahashi Matsuzaki

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Toyoto Fukuda Tetsuya Takita Yoshi Katō Takita Tomoko Mayama Kikuchiyo