Film
Play It Cool
Japan- Director
- Yasuzō Masumura
- Year
- 1970
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.
Top cast
Mari Atsumi
Yumi
Yūsuke Kawazu
Nozawa
Kō Nishimura
Kada
Ryoichi Tamagawa
Yoshimura
Tomo'o Nagai
Takasaki
Sanae Nakahara
Madame
Tomoko Mayama
Kinuko
Akemi Negishi
Tomi
Yoshihiko Aoyama
Tajima
Sei Hiraizumi
Ishikawa
Gen Kimura
Kazama
Yūzō Hayakawa
Yamakawa
Tsutomu Nakata
Iwata
Kōichi Itō
Old man
Reiko Kasahara
Yuka
Junko Yashiro
Nobuko
Hiroko Kai
Woman B
Fumiko Murata
Middle-aged woman
Directed by
Yasuzō Masumura
Written by
Yoshihiro Ishimatsu, Yasuzō Masumura