Shusei Tokuda's starkly realistic novel about a poor girl pressed into becoming a geisha was forcefully adapted by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba). When Ginko (Nobuko Otowa, Shindo's wife) falls in love with one of her clients, she is handily rebuffed by the young man's wealthy family, and left to wander from geisha house to geisha house.
Epitome (also know as Shukuzu) full movie is released on Apr 08, 1953. Watch Epitome online - the Japanese Drama movie from Japan. Epitome is directed by Kaneto Shindô and created by Kaneto Shindô with Nobuko Otowa and Sumiko Hidaka.