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Audio Format: DD 2.0 Video Format: Standard 1.33:1 Languages: English Region Code: ALL Year Made: 1999 Running Time: 94
They are the ultimate luxury for wealthy Japanese businessmen. They kneel at the sides of their lucky clients, charming them with effortless grace, porcelain beauty, coy flirtation and unmatched service. For hundreds of years, geishas have been a fixture of Japanese society, but at the dawn of a new millennium, their numbers are dwindling fast.
 THE SECRET LIFE OF GEISHA peels back the rice-paper curtain for an intimate look at the culture, history, training and private lives of these alluring figures. Surprising revelations--including the fact that the first geishas were men--pepper the program, while extensive footage from inside exclusive teahouses in Kyoto and Tokyo shows the service clients receive for upwards of $1000 per evening. In exclusive, intimate interviews, geishas talk of the years of training that go into their craft, and of the unique pressures they feel. Photographs and diaries document some of the love affairs that have become legend, and scholars examine the role of the geisha in Japanese society over the centuries.
Like no other program ever made, THE SECRET LIFE OF GEISHA opens a window into the world of the women who have long embodied the mysteries of the East, and whose way of life is in peril.
Special Features:
- Glossary
- Geisha Points of Distinction
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