Arcadia Public Library

A fisherman's daughter in 1930s Japan rises to become a famous geisha. After training, Sayuri's virginity is sold to the highest bidder, then the school finds her a general for a patron. When he dies, she is reunited with the only man she loved.

"Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura's prearranged marriage to the son of her father's business associate would secure her family's status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man--an American sailor, a gaijin--and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it's learned Naoko carries the sailor's child, she's cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences...

As she films a 52-part series on wholesome American beef for Japanese television, director Jane Takagi-Little of New York realizes she is doing her viewers a disservice and sabotages the show. Combines exposure of unhealthy production of meat and a cross-cultural view of America.

Una saga familiar de mujeres en busca de su propio camino e independencia. «¿Compro la tetera de cristal? ¿Un monedero? ¿O invito a mis amigos a cenar?». Kotoko, la matriarca de la familia Mikuriya, está convencida de que la manera en que gastas una pequeña cantidad de dinero dice mucho de tu personalidad y da forma a tu vida. Y su nieta Miho se da cuenta de que debe de haber algo de cierto en ello. Cuatro mujeres en el Japón de hoy, sus sueños...

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength...