In the years before World War II, a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a maid in a geisha house. She then reveals how she transcends her fishing-village roots and becomes one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
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27 September 1950, Tokyo, Japan
15 October 1924, Kyoto, Japan
29 May 1957, Bellaire, Ohio, USA
May 9, 1975 in Palo Alto, California, USA
31 December 1965, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
24 September 1943
10 December 1933, Kobe, Japan
1 January 1956, Isahaya, Japan
19 November 1987, South Korea
2 September 1975, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
August 30, 2009
Titanic fraudulence
December 27, 2005
Ultimately, Memoirs of a Geisha compares unfavorably with the book, though it offers pleasures of its own.
December 27, 2005
... a fascinating glimpse at a lost world of women with skin of porcelain and spines of steel, and the men in their thrall.
January 18, 2006
The subject remained interesting enough to this provincial American to accept and ultimately enjoy the film's well-worn romanticism, even with its resignedly tired happy ending.
December 27, 2005
... the movie is a well-meaning, vaporous bore, enlivened only by occasional traces of Showgirls-style camp and plasticine tears trickling down impeccably powdered cheeks.
March 01, 2007
For all of its inaccuracies and over-the-top mise-en-scène, Memoirs is quite entertaining.
October 03, 2006
full review in Greek
April 26, 2007
Director Rob Marshall has a sophomore flop on his hands.
July 30, 2009
It's lush, stylish and a feast for the eyes and ears rather than the heart and soul.
December 27, 2005
Memoirs of a Geisha is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.
December 27, 2005
It is a lush, blushingly romantic portrait of Asian culture as seen through a Western lens.
