A Geisha's Diary

*Not to be confused with A Geisha.*

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***A Geisha's Diary*** (女は二度生まれる, *Onna wa nido umareru*) also known as ***A Geisha's Born Twice*** is a 1961 Japanese drama film directed by Yūzō Kawashima. Ayako Wakao won the Best Actress awards at the Blue Ribbon Awards and the Kinema Jumpo Award for her performance in this film.

## Plot

Hanamachi where you can hear the sound of drums at Yasukuni Shrine. Geisha Koen was in the chest of architect Tsutsui. "I can't give you a business card, because I don't know what my lover's name is." The Prostitution Prevention Law didn't make her feel any sick. Anyway, every day was pretty fun. There was something that made her flutter. It was time to meet Junichiro Maki, a college student who met on the way back to the bathhouse. But her daily life was still just sleeping, from man to man. At that time, I felt something that I met in front of the sushi restaurant, Nozaki, and I went to the bird with him and stayed away from the business. However, Nozaki also thought about the future and went to marry a woman who even had children. On the other hand, she went out to playboys Yajima and Hakone. For the first time, she talked to Maki, but she was lonely because he was going away from college. One day, the prostitution of her Okiya was revealed and the business was closed. She worked at a bar in Ginza while being touched by her former colleague, where she met Tsutsui again and was recommended to become No. 2. There she was also a cute woman. I loved the boys who were in the road show theater and made Tsutsui crazy. However, when Tsutsui fell ill, he closed his wife's eyes and took care of him. Then, when Tsutsui, who had a temporary lull, died, he held up a photo and put on his clothes. She went out to the tatami room again and met Maki again, but was disappointed to find out that he was entertaining a foreigner. Wandering around the city, she met a boy builder someday, and when she knew she wanted to go to the mountains, she decided to go home. Along the way, I ran into Nozaki, who seemed happy with my wife and children. After receiving money from her and seeing off the boy who went out to the mountains energetically, she decided to go to her hometown, and in her eyes she saw something like a purpose of living a new life.

## Cast

* Koen: Ayako Wakao
* Junichiro Maki: Jun Fujimaki
* Kiyomasa Tsutsui: Satoshi Yamamura
* Shimazaki: Tsusai Sugawara ( special appearance )
* Yajima Kenzo: Kyu Sazanka
* Riko Yamawaki: Kyoko Enami
* Toshiko Tsutsui: Michiko Takano
* Sakurada: Mantaro Ushio
* Ginko: Mayumi Kurata
* Professor Inotani: Kichijiro Ueda
* Force: Chieko Murata
* Momochiyo: Yuko Yashio
* Tokiya: Keiko Yamauchi
* Nozaki's wife: Tazuko Niki
* Arrow character: Hiroko Hanai
* Nobuko Kimura: Yuka Konno
* Kokichi: Sachiko Meguro
* Otaka: Fumiko Murata
* Keiko Tsutsui: Hisano Yamaoka
* Sonoko: Noriko Hodaka
* Sumiyoshi: Kiyoko Hirai
* Sasuke: Hisako Koda
* Tsuruko: Mariko Miho
* Tanaka: Shizuo Nakajo
* Kazuko: Chieko Murai
* Kimono shop: Tsutomu Nakata
* Tomura's maid: Mitsuko Takesato
* Kimiyo: Kazuko Yama
* Director: Kenji Oyama
* Apartment manager: Saburo Sakai
* Kohei Izumiyama: Kuniichi Takami
* Fumio Nozaki: Frankie Sakai (Toho)

## Staff

* Director: Yuzo Kawashima ( Toho )
* Planning: Haruo Kawasaki
* Original: From Tomita Tsuneo's "Koen Diary", Kodansha version
* Screenplay: Toshiro Ide (Toho), Yuzo Kawashima (Toho)
* Photo: Hiroshi Murai
* Recording: Mitsuo Hasegawa
* Lighting: Choji Watanabe
* Art: Akira Inoue
* Costume proof: Tamaki Mitamura
* Music: Sei Ikeno
* Edit: Tatsuji Nakashizu
* Assistant Director: Noriaki Yuasa
* Production chief: Hiromitsu Ooka
* Development: Tokyo Laboratory
* Costumes provided by: Kyoto Shirotoen, Tokamachi Sekiyoshi

## References

This is a list of references for **A Geisha's Diary**. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

1. ↑ "女は二度生まれる" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
2. ↑ "Awards for Onna wa nido umareru (1961)" at IMDb

## External links

* A Geisha's Diary on Eiga.com
* A Geisha's Diary on IMDb
* A Geisha's Diary on JMDB