Adventure drama based on the true story of Townsend Harris, America's first consul to Japan in 1856. At first spurned by both the locals and the Japanese hierarchy, he manages to gain their trust both through his assistance during a cholera epidemic and his blossoming relationship with the beautiful geisha Okichi.
The Barbarian and the Geisha is a Film programme that first aired in 1958 and has been classified a U certificate.
