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MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Rob Marshall
Genre: Romantic Drama, Period Film, Melodrama, Drama, Romance
Release Date: December 09, 2005 (USA
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Summary:
This film, based on the novel by Arthur Golden, unfolds from the perspective of Chiyo (Zhang Ziyi), a girl who, at the age of nine, is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto in the early 1930s. Here, she learns that becoming a geisha can be the single path to wealth and independence for a woman. The head geisha of her house, however, Hatsumomo (Gong Li), ... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Zhang Ziyi - (Sayuri)
Ken Watanabe - (The Chairman)
Michelle Yeoh - (Mameha)
Koji Yakusho - (Nobu)
Youki Kudoh - (Pumpkin)
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Review:
Beautiful but boring, Memoirs of a Geisha is worth watching once for the sake of its rich imagery alone. Unfortunately, without a well-paced narrative or particularly compelling story, its allure is only skin deep. While many literary adaptations suf ... Continue >>

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