Skip to main content Directed by Juzo Itami • 1990 • Japan Nobuko Miyamoto stars as a geisha who brings good luck to the men she sleeps with. Nobuko Miyamoto plays a geisha who's in demand because she possesses such organ. Tales of a Golden Geisha starts with the sly energy of Itami’s early work, but as the film gets down… Overview of Tales of a Golden Geisha, 1990, directed by Juzo Itami, with Nobuko Miyamoto, Musahiko Tsugawa, Ryunosuke Kaneda, at Turner Classic Movies Mondo is ambitious playboy who has appetite for both social status and women. Mondo (Masahiko Tsugawa) meets Nayoko (Nobuko Miyamoto) by a chance encounter in the subway. Tales of a Golden Geisha - The Criterion Channel Directed by Juzo Itami • 1990 • Japan Nobuko Miyamoto stars as a geisha who brings good luck to the men she sleeps with.