Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a geisha at night She sees her future as an entertainer, not a prostitute, & she expects a happy marriage with a medical student, Yasuke (Katsuo Nakamura), a sweet fellow she deeply loves. but things started to getting worse for Tamiko and she's forced to become the mistress of the disgusting Tsukada (Seiji Miyaguchi).

Yoshiko Mita
as Tamiko

Katsuo Nakamura
as Yasuke

Tatsuo Umemiya
as Shigemi Nitta

Mako Midori
as Tsutae

Kaori Tsukahara
as Yukie

Ai Sasaki
as Miyako

Seiji Miyaguchi
as Tsukada

Michiko Araki
as Oharu

Kōshirō Harada
as Oki

Ken Mitsuda
as "Manharu" master