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. 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.
Production Columbia Pictures Corporation; DreamWorks SKG; Spyglass Entertainment; Amblin Entertainment; Red Wagon Productions;
Cast Names Ziyi Zhang; Suzuka Ohgo; Ken Watanabe; Kôji Yakusho; Youki Kudoh; Li Gong; Kaori Momoi; Tsai Chin; Zoe Weizenbaum; Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa; Kenneth Tsang; Randall Duk Kim; Ted Levine; Paul Adelstein; Samantha Futerman; Thomas Ikeda; Michelle Yeoh; Eugenia Yuan; Yôko Narahashi; Karl Yune; Kotoko Kawamura; Natsuo Tomita; Shizuko Hoshi; Togo Igawa; Mako; Elizabeth Sung; Navia Nguyen; Rick Mali; Faith Shin; David Okihiro; Miyako Tachibana; Steve Terada; Koji Toyoda; Fumi Akutagawa; Daisuke Dewaarashi; Laura Miro; Diane Mizota; Takayo Fischer; Asako Takasue; Yasusuke Uike;
Box Office USD 57,010,853
Release Date 2005-12-09 (limited) 2005-12-23
Genres Biography; Drama; Romance; War;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated PG-13 for mature subject matter and some sexual content.
Running Time 2 hr. 25 min. 2 hr. 20 min.
Director Rob Marshall
Memoirs of a Geisha Reviews
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One of my favorite movies of all times though I was a bit disappointed about the things they had to cut out of movie that were in the book, yet you can only fit so much on screen.