Play It Cool
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Mari Atsumi, Yūsuke Kawazu, Kō Nishimura, Ryoichi Tamagawa, Tomo'o Nagai, Sanae Nakahara, Tomoko Mayama, Akemi Negishi, Yoshihiko Aoyama, Sei Hiraizumi, Gen Kimura, Yūzō Hayakawa, Tsutomu Nakata
Crew: Yasuzō Masumura (Director), Masayuki Tôyama (Novel), Yoshihiro Ishimatsu (Screenplay), Yasuzō Masumura (Screenplay), Hikaru Hayashi (Original Music Composer)