Play It Cool
May 01 1970
•2h 34m
•Action, Crime, Drama
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.
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Mari Atsumi
Yumi
Yūsuke Kawazu
Nozawa
Kō Nishimura
Kada
Ryoichi Tamagawa
Yoshimura
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