Yasuko Fujita

Japanese drama film.

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one end, they must contend with the local villagers who balk at the prospect of relocation; on the other, they face the ambitions of the headstrong lumber baron, whose actions will only further destabilize the land. Their pleas for reason ignored, the scientists can do little but observe as nature runs its inevitable course.

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not easy.

In the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate, in Kyoto, Osan and her companion Yahē were seeking shelter from a sudden downpour at the Chion-in temple gate. There, they witnessed a country-born young samurai named Murao Mayumi being kindly shown the way by a warrior also taking refuge from the rain. Yahē later told Osan that this warrior was the famed Kurama Tengu.