Genç bir fahişe çalıştığı genelevin sahibinin sevgilisi ile beraber olur. Cinsel zevki ilk kez tadar. Tabii aşk/saplantı tarzı bir duygu da gelişir bu iki insanın arasında. Sonunda çift evlenmeye karar verir. Buna karşın kız erkeğini elinden kaçırma korkusu ile onu sürekli iğdiş etmekle tehdit etmektedir. Gelmiş geçmiş en sert ve tartışmalı filmlerden biri. Arızalı bir aşk öyküsünü, zaman zaman pornografinin sınırlarında dolaşarak ama asla söylendiği gibi kaba bir pornoya dönüşmeden, Oshima'nın üslupçu ve estetiksel tavrıyla anlatıldığı bir film.

İkinci Dünya Savaşı’ndan bir yıl önce, yoksul bir ailenin kız çocuğu bir geyşa evinde hizmetçi olarak çalışmaya başlar. Gizemleri günümüze kadar korunan, saklı ve bir o kadar da büyülü bir dünyada büyüyen kız çocuğu, rekabetin bitmediği, hataların affedilmediği bir dönemde efsanevi geyşa Sayuri’ye dönüşür. Dönemin en güçlü erkeklerini parmaklarında oynatan Sayuri, rakiplerinin tuzaklarına aldırmaksızın gerçek aşkın hayalleriyle yaşamaktadır.

Kör bir gezgin olan Zatoichi kumar oynarak ve masaj yaparak geçimini sağlar. Aynı zamanda usta kılıç kullanışıyla ünü dört bir yana yayılmıştır. Bir dağ kasabasına gelen Zatoichi burada Ginzo denilen bir çete ile karşılaşır. Çete bütün kasabayı esir almış, karşı koymaya çalışan herkesi de öldürmektedir. Hattori adındaki samuray bu cinayetlerin baş kahramınıdır. Arkadaşı Şinkiçi ile beraber iki geyşayla tanışırlar. Kardeş olan bu geyşalar intikam hırsıyla dolmuş, güzel ama bir o kadar tehlikeli kızlardır. Ailelerinin öldürülmesinin öcünü almak için bu kasabaya gelmişlerdir. Zorlu bir mücadeleye giren Zatoichi meşhur kılıcıyla ve usta figürleriyle bu çete ile karşı karşıyadır.

Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin against the Shogunate. His faithful servant gathers the 100 ryo required for his acceptance. Gengobe is also in love with a greedy geisha named Koman. About to be sold to another man, Gengobe learns that for him to keep her, her debt is exactly 100 ryo.

Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She thinks that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. Omocha therefore tries various schemes to get rid of Furusawa, and set themselves up with better patrons.

Joseon'un en gözde dedektifi Kim Min, Joseon piyasasında dolaşan büyük miktarda sahte gümüş külçesi işinden sorumlu olan kişilerin izlerini takip edip yakalamaya çalışırken kız kardeşi kaybolan küçük bir kıza da yardım eder.

The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke, a brothel owner, spends his days in the arms of geishas, paying little heed to the events happening around him.

Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.

Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.

The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe, considered by him to be the master of manipulation.

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles - between family members, men and women, and with the Yakuza. Momokawa was sold to Yokiro at age 12, and despite being the top geisha, her many complicated relationships provide unending challenges throughout her glamorous but turbulent life.

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student. Sada wanders the city, becoming a geisha and eventually meeting Kichizo, a posh restaurateur who falls under her spell. Together, they embark on a week-long sexual escapade filled with dangerous obsessions. Their complete descent into each others desires culminates in a shocking crime of passion which captures the city's headlines. Based on a real event from 1936.

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 Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...

Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love of a young geisha.

Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.

Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work in the geisha house run by her aunt. The daughter of a once great geisha, Mugiko is entitled by blood to train in the geishas ancient art of classical Japanese song and dance.