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Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st Vintage international ed.
Physical Desc
182 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
2-disc widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
In 1929, a poor fisherman sells his 9-year-old daughter to a geisha house in Kyoto. Chiyo will be an unpaid servant until it is determined if she is beautiful enough for apprenticeship, and the house's clientèle. Run by Mother, the ruling geisha is Hatsumomo, and little Pumpkin her only friend. Trained under strict discipline for a lifetime of entertaining and flattering wealthy men, Sayuri grows up lovely, accomplished, and the target of jealous...
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