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This term is used to refer to geisha from western japan, including kyoto and kanazawa. Directorproducer steven spielberg, left, malaysian actress michelle yeoh, center, and japanese actor ken watanabe pose together at the premiere of. Kotono is a beautiful professional geisha who inherits a secretly guarded sword and pursues hyoe, the man who killed her father. I suppose geisha s in shogun 2 can be used to act like a courtesan and when the general is, for example sleeping, the geisha tries to assissinate him. All three had previously worked together on the machine girl, and nishimura.
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