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A late (1953) masterpiece by the preeminent Japanese director, Kenji Mizoguchi (its Japanese title translates as Gion Festival Music). Mizoguchi treats his perennial theme—woman and her problematical place in a society that both exploits and idealizes her—through a story of a young girl's education as a geisha and her conflicts with an older sister. One of the few Mizoguchi films of the 50s with a contemporary setting, it is no less eternal in its mise-en-scene than Ugetsu or Sansho the Bailiff. By Dave Kehr

Sorry there are no showtimes for A Geisha on Saturday, November 21.

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