Memoirs of a Geisha
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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12 December 1974, Thousand Oaks, California, USA
8 April 1952, Tokyo, Japan
9 September 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 September 1946, Tokyo, Japan
29 April 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
17 January 1971, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
27 February 1994, Highland Park, Illinois, USA
2 October 1978, Laos
21 September 1991, Seattle, Washington, USA
April 26, 2007
Director Rob Marshall has a sophomore flop on his hands.
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.
March 01, 2007
For all of its inaccuracies and over-the-top mise-en-scène, Memoirs is quite entertaining.
August 30, 2009
Titanic fraudulence
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
Ultimately, Memoirs of a Geisha compares unfavorably with the book, though it offers pleasures of its own.
July 30, 2009
It's lush, stylish and a feast for the eyes and ears rather than the heart and soul.
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.
October 03, 2006
full review in Greek
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.
