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The story begins in the years before WWII when a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Sayuri . Beautiful and accomplished, Sayuri captivates the most powerful men of her day, but is haunted by her secret love for the one man who is out of her reach.
Release Date: December 9, 2005 (NY, LA, TOR, SF; limited release: December 16; wider release: December 23) Studio: Columbia Pictures Director: Rob Marshall
Screenwriter: Robin Swicord, Doug Wright Starring: Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, Kaori Momoi, Tsai Chin, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Suzuka Ohgo Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for mature subject matter and some sexual content) Official Website: SonyPictures.com
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for mature subject matter and some sexual content. For rating reasons, go to FILMRATINGS.COM, and MPAA.ORG.
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MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
or Journal of a Call Girl?
Two girls are sold into slavery; one is sent directly to the brothel, but young Chiyo is placed in a house and destined to become “Geisha.” What is a geisha, you ask? Rob Marshall‘s film unpacks this slowly. The director of Chicago gives us a stylized version of geisha life that seems one part Japanese Cinderella, one part Showgirls, and one part salvation… —Review by JAMES HARLEMAN
A WONDERFUL PORTRAYAL OF GRACE
That first encounter between Sayuri and the Chairman is his responding to this girl he does not know, merely because she is sad. He treats her as someone with an intrinsic worth. —Review by Darrel Manson
REDEMPTION AND LOVE
Let yourself feel the acute sadness and despair of Sayuri and the joy in her eventual triumph, and you’ll find this a marvelous tale of redemption and love.
In 1997, novelist Arthur Golden offered readers an intoxicating and riveting story of a hidden world in his acclaimed novel, Memoirs of a Geisha. The sweeping romantic epic spent two years on The New York Times best-seller list, sold more than four million copies in English, and has been translated into 32 languages.
Now, Oscar-nominated director Rob Marshall (Chicago) and producers Lucy Fisher, & Douglas Wick and Steven Spielberg, along with an acclaimed international cast and an award-winning behind-the-camera team have brought this mesmerizing fable to the screen.
Set in a mysterious and exotic world which still casts a potent spell today, the story begins in the years before World War II, when a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a servant in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Sayuri. Beautiful and accomplished, Sayuri captivates the most powerful men of her day, but is haunted by her secret love for the one man beyond her reach.
Memoirs of a Geisha begins in 1929, near the end of the geishas’ golden era. Told as a fable from a disappearing world, the film is set in a fictional hanamachi or geisha district.
As Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang) enters this hidden world, she is taught that a geisha is not free to love, or to pursue her own destiny. Her mentor, the legendary geisha Mameha (Michelle Yeoh), understands the limits of an intimate relationship with a special patron or danna, and teaches Sayuri to keep her feelings tightly reined. Unlike Sayuri’s defiant rival Hatsumomo (Gong Li), Mameha knows that a proper geisha cannot afford to indulge her passion for any man.
Yet Sayuri cannot forget a moment of unexpected kindness she experienced at an early age. The memory of that moment shimmers like a mirage, and sustains her through years of suffering. Looking back at her life, she remembers “a little girl with more courage than she knew,” and reflects, “These are not the memoirs of an Empress, nor of a Queen. These are memoirs of another kind.”
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Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a servant in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Sayuri. Beautiful and accomplished, Sayuri captivates the most powerful men of her day, but is haunted by her secret love for the one man beyond her reach. 
