Although hampered by a transparent plot, a lean and implausible one-joke premise and a tendency to fluctuate uneasily between comedy and drama, the picture has been richly and elaborately produced on ...

The new geisha was a trifle tall—6 ft. 1 from zoris to lacquered wig—and during dinner one of her contact lenses popped into the noodles. This left one eye brown and the other blue, but the Japanese ...

With her perfectly lacquered hair, painted face and a submissive demeanor meant to please the men she entertains, the Japanese geisha has the reputation of being a lady of uncertain morals. Delicate, ...

One day in the late 1960s, a 16-year-old American girl called Liza Dalby was walking down a street in Saga, a city in southern Japan, when she heard the music of the shamisen for the first time. “At ...

The woman, originally from Melbourne and now going only by her professional name Sayuki, first came to Japan at the age of 15 on a school exchange programme. True to tradition, Sayuki won't reveal her ...

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful ...