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Five friends united by a secret, the ghost of a dead woman who has apparently committed suicide and the search for the truth by a friend who is searching for her own identity.

Follow a pair of teenage Geishas-in-training who arrive in Kyoto from the countryside to learn the controversial art of “entertaining” wealthy men.

A young man reading a novel in a field, falls in love at first sight with Sadako Abe (Iori Furukawa), a woman who passes by. By chance, Teiko started working at Shintaro's house as a maid in order to pay off her dead mother's medical bills and funeral bills. However, Sadako is hired by Shintaro's father, Jukichi (Shinra Bansho), and spends nights with him. Shintaro tries to have a relationship with Teiko, but his relationship is torn apart by Shigekichi's second wife Tokuko (Otsuki Hibiki) and the head maid Masami (Matsui Riko).Sadako was severely treated by the two. Tokuko and Masami also liked Shintaro and were jealous of his relationship with Teiko.However, Teiko and Shintaro develop a love relationship, but one day, Omiya (Tsutomu Sakamoto), who introduces Teiko, tries to use Shigekichi's secret as a joke. What is the secret?

One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The samurais attack her one after another, but she fights hard against samurais with her sword. Kotono tries to chase the samurais who scramble to escape. Yet now three ninjas stand up against her. Kotono drops her sword by their wave of assaults. Can she beat them?

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two families?

The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke, a brothel owner, spends his days in the arms of geishas, paying little heed to the events happening around him.

Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes true. When she learns of the trouble Yukichi's business is facing, she stands ready to come to his aid, and thus repay a debt that's long overdue.

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles - between family members, men and women, and with the Yakuza. Momokawa was sold to Yokiro at age 12, and despite being the top geisha, her many complicated relationships provide unending challenges throughout her glamorous but turbulent life.

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.

In this continuation of Discover Japan with the 5 Gents (Shacho sen ichiya, 1967), Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70.

Writer Kosaku Yoshizumi (Atsushi Narasaka) finally writes a novel after a long slump and wins a literary prize. Publishing editor Kojima (Sousuke Yamamoto) learns of this information and visits Yoshizumi's house to make an offer for the company's next work. However, Yoshizumi was absent, and his lover, Kyoka (Kyoko Maki), welcomed Kojima in his place. Kyoka used to be the geisha that Yoshizumi and Kojima went to at a restaurant together. Kojima is once again fascinated by Kyoka's beauty. Knowing that Kyoka was the model for the novel. That night, Kojima ends up masturbating while reading a novel.

A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed businessmen and providing bawdy entertainment through the evening followed by private companionship at night, interspersed with occasional catfights with the rival geisha house. Their routine is suddenly thrown off by the appearance of an abandoned baby in the geishas' dormitory, followed by its disappearance only a short time later. Who could be responsible for such a thing?

1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".

In accordance with ancient rituals a landlady who runs a hot spring spa, known for its fertility, needs to conceive or she will be forced to leave. Meanwhile the owner of the spa is happy to indulge in the erotic attentions of the many geishas working there who have hopes to replace her if she fails in her duty.

In a rural town the local elders and a band greet the arrival of a troupe of strippers. After a show two men who claim to be show biz producers make the elders an offer. If enough funds can be raised they will make their favorite lead stripper a star. Is this an offer too good to be true?

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Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundrels who don’t deserve it.

A young girl works as a geisha to earn money for travel.

A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work in the geisha house run by her aunt. The daughter of a once great geisha, Mugiko is entitled by blood to train in the geishas ancient art of classical Japanese song and dance.

Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken" with one.

Japan around 1860: popular courtesan Asagiri will be freed soon from her service, yet she cannot imagine any other existence. Until one day at a local festival, Asagiri meets the young artisan Hanjiro by chance – an encounter that changes her destiny. With a strong performance by leading actress Yumi ADACHI and exquisite camerawork and production design, A COURTESAN WITH FLOWERED SKIN succeeds in recalling the golden age of Japanese erotic film.

Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student. Sada wanders the city, becoming a geisha and eventually meeting Kichizo, a posh restaurateur who falls under her spell. Together, they embark on a week-long sexual escapade filled with dangerous obsessions. Their complete descent into each others desires culminates in a shocking crime of passion which captures the city's headlines. Based on a real event from 1936.

Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love of a young geisha.

Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In the end, she’s pitted against a sexual superman and a showdown ensues. There’s also a subplot about a mad scientist type who needs vaginal juices to create a potion designed to turn Japanese girls black.

This is the story of a samurai who falls on hard times due to misunderstandings and follows the plots of his enemies.

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.

Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...

Dan is a former geisha, now working as an ace pilot for the Earth Defense Troops. Her fiance was killed by the space monster Bemurasu which consumes nuclear waste. To save Planet Earth, Dan attacks Bemurasu, but whenever she does, she feels ecstasy. Can she save Planet Earth?

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.

Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.

A farmer faces the aftermath of a destructive typhoon and struggles to cope with climate change that deeply affected his family, leading to a twist that blurs the line between reality and imagination.

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in the near future.

A drama centered on the relationship between Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden while the music business legend was on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson.

Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.

After a heroic job of successfully landing his storm-damaged aircraft in a war zone, a fearless pilot finds himself between the agendas of multiple militias planning to take the plane and its passengers hostage.

When the power goes out and all exits mysteriously seal shut, shoppers and employees find themselves trapped inside a Puerto Rico shopping mall with no communication to the outside world. As uncertainty turns to desperation, what begins as confusion rapidly descends into chaos. With limited food supplies and no answers, strangers must choose between cooperation and survival at any cost. In the darkness, civilized society collapses in mere hours, revealing the fragile line between order and anarchy. A post-apocalyptic thriller that unfolds entirely within the claustrophobic confines of a mall, where the real horror isn't what's outside—it's what emerges from within.

Marlon, an insecure and not-so-attractive photographer, is hit with a spell that every night transforms him into Brando, a handsome womanizer. Things will get harder when the spell becomes his biggest obstacle to obtain true love.

A delivery boy from a grocery store gets the dream opportunity of participating in his favorite reality show.

Juan Carlos returns to the Dominican Republic to reunite with his longtime fiancee, only to find her already married and pregnant. Sunk into despair and with nothing to do, he meets Patricia, who will change his life.

A Holocaust survivor who escapes the concentration camps finds refuge on a secluded Delaware Beach and raises her abandoned twin grandchildren.

When a cult wake up to find their leader missing, they must choose to continue following his path or carve out their own.

Three suspects are being interrogated for the murder of Dr Eric Pierce. There is only one question the detectives want to know the answer to... WHO DID IT?

Adam Santoso, the youngest village head candidate in Jawi Village, aims to transform the “dirtiest village” with a unique vision: imposing fines on residents who litter, inspired by Singapore. However, his approach is rejected for being too radical. Will Adam succeed?

Koji Shiraishi interviews the survivors of an indiscriminate attack at a sightseeing resort and starts investigating the strange events that have been happening to them.

Eye-popping digital moving image work with an equally arresting soundtrack from noise music heavies.

Indie film by Fujiwara Sho, 2001.