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The Woman in the Rumor (1954) on Netflix

NR19541h 23mDramaRomance

Hatsuko Mabuchi runs a courtesan house in Kyoto and is involved with Kenji Matoba, the doctor who tends her women. Her daughter Yukiko comes home from Tokyo after a suicide attempt.

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Yukiko Mabuchi comes back to Kyoto from Tokyo after a suicide attempt, and finds her mother's household hard to bear. Hatsuko Mabuchi, a widow, runs a prosperous tayū house, the highest class of courtesans, and Matoba, the young doctor who works for the guild and looks after the women there, is her lover. Matoba dreams of opening his own practice and considers moving to Tokyo, which Hatsuko opposes. Yukiko's boyfriend had left her once his family learned what her mother did. She keeps her distance from the house and from Matoba, who is drawn to her.

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