is a 1983 Japanese period drama film directed by Hideo Gosha, with a screenplay written by Kà Âji Takada. It is based on the novel Yà Âkirà  by Tomiko Miyao. The film was theatrically released on September 10, 1983, by Toei Company, in Japan.
The film follows the loves and losses of a geisha in 1933 Imperial Japan.
20 years prior, in 1913, a man named Katsuzo is in love with a young geisha. She bears him a daughter. They attempt to run away together, but they are caught, and Katsuzo's lover is killed in front of him.
Decades later, Katsuzo has become a zegen (a pimp) who sells girls to Yà Âkirà Â, the largest and most successful geisha house in Western Japan. Yà Âkirà  is home to over 200 geisha and is run by Osode, Katsuzo's former mistress. Katsuzo sells his daughter to Yà Âkirà  when she is only 12 years old. She is raised by Osode and the other geisha, with Osode giving her the name Momowaka. Though Momowaka lives glamourously as Osode's top geisha, her life and relationships are turbulent.
Katsuzo's current girlfriend, Tamako, wants to become a geisha too, as Momowaka falls in love with one of her clients. Meanwhile, various factions vie for Yà Âkirà Â, including one of Osaka's yakuza clans, which moves to take control of the establishment.