a look at three geisha who be way past their prime . now they look back on their past with fondness and bemoan their present . kin ( play by float weed haruko sugimura ) have swear off men and have make a good living a a moneylender while everyone on the block owe her . the other two and nobu and tamae and wish they could land husband and but be not foolish enough to believe they ever will . meanwhile and their child one have a son and one a daughter be both about to get marry ( not to each other ) . tamae be irk at how much pretty her daughter have become than her and and bitterly try to convince her not to marry the man . nobu concern about her son be more legitimate in nature and but they be also ( understandably ) self serve . after her son leaf and she will be alone . a bit into the film and two of kin former client come look for her and one a man so obsessed with her that he try to get her to commit double suicide with him and the other one of her handsome client . unfortunately and he come for her money and not her love . the way i have describe the film make it sound unrelentingly depressing and but it really not . sad and but not fatally so . it more bittersweet . unfortunately and i only marginally like late chrysanthemum . the story seem well when i look back on it and but it be very slow and dull . i actually nod off twice during the film and and i wasn not at all tire before i start it . this be the kind of film that i can appreciate more than like while it remind me very much of my reaction to a couple of ozu more famous film . positive .