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By Liza Dalby
Format: Color, Full Screen, Supratitled, NTSC
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Stylus LLC
DVD Release Date: September 15, 2004
Run Time: 30 minutes
"Ko-uta are the sophisticated cafe chansons of Japan - sexy, elegant, plaintive, colorful and humorous."
Editorial Reviews
> From the Actor
Liza Dalby, Japanese Cultural Consultant on the movie set of Memoirs of a Geisha, is also a renowned author on Japanese culture. Her books Geisha, Kimono, and Ko-uta: Little Songs of the Geisha World are regarded as the authoritative sources on their subjects. Liza also gives lectures at universities and museums worldwide.
> Product Description
"Geisha Blues" is the only documentary series of its kind.
"Geisha Blues" is a musical documentary by Liza Dalby, the western world's foremost geisha expert.
In this first volume, Liza examines 12 Ko-uta (short songs sung by geisha with a shamisen accompaniment).
Each song is has beautifully animated graphics and supra-titling in English, Romaji, and Kanji.
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