Memoirs of a Geisha (Full Screen) (2-DVD) PG-13
My world is as forbidden as it is fragile; without its mysteries, it cannot survive.
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 28, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ken Watanabe | |
Performer: | Gong Li, Kôji Yakusho & Mako | |
Directed by | Rob Marshall | |
Music by | Yo-Yo Ma & Itzhak Perlman | |
Screenwriting by | Robin Swicord & Doug Wright | |
Composition by | John Williams | |
Produced by | Steven Spielberg, Roger Birnbaum, Lucy Fisher & Douglas Wick | |
Director of Photography: | Dion Beebe | |
Executive Production by | Gary Barber, Patricia Whitcher & Bobby Cohen |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2005 -
Best Cinematography: Dion Beebe
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Certainly is beautiful to look at, but it holds the audience at bay with one dainty, silk-shrouded arm.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
On the evidence of Marshall's film, the geishas are like highly trained birds kept in intricately woven bamboo cages; they are made temporarily fascinating by the skills of the film's true artists -- its troika of fine leading actresses...
Sight and Sound
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.
Observer
Memoirs of a Geisha is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.
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Washington Post
Rating: 65/100 --
Director Rob Marshall has a sophomore flop on his hands.
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Apollo Guide
Rating: 3/5 --
It's lush, stylish and a feast for the eyes and ears rather than the heart and soul.
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Screenwize
Titanic fraudulence
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CinePassion
Product Description:
Arthur Golden's blockbuster bestseller, MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, has been brilliantly brought to the big screen by Oscar-nominated director Rob Marshall (CHICAGO). The film opens in a remote Japanese fishing village in 1929, where two sisters, Chiyo and Satsu, are sold by their troubled father to people who place Chiyo in a classy geisha house known as an okiya in Gion and Satsu in a much more vulgar and dangerous district. Chiyo becomes a maid to Hatsumomo, a cold, controlling, and calculating geisha who is instantly jealous of Chiyo's unusual, beautiful eyes and childish innocence. Chiyo is befriended by Pumpkin, another maid at the okiya, but the two are soon driven apart. Chiyo is shown compassion by the Chairman and another, more successful geisha, Mameha, who takes her under her wing as her "little sister," furthering the battle between Chiyo, now called Sayuri, and Hatsumomo. As Sayuri is trained in the art of being a geisha, learning how to walk, talk, dance, and serve (up to a point) in order to please and honor her distinguished male clients, World War II looms on the horizon, threatening to upend Japan and its old ways.
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA is a lush, sweeping historical and romantic epic, featuring gorgeous period costumes, primarily the exquisite kimono worn by the geisha. Ziyi Zhang (HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) is outstanding as Sayuri, who stands up to the oppressive Hatsumomo (the effervescent Gong Li), while Michelle Yeoh, who starred with Zhang in CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, is splendid as the wise and elegant Mameha. Ken Watanabe (THE LAST SAMURAI), Koji Yakusho (SHALL WE DANCE'), and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (ELEKTRA) are among the men who take an interest in Sayuri, who is continually faced with difficult choices that will shape her destiny, just as Japan's destiny is changing shape with the coming of the West. John Williams's soaring score is enhanced by solos from virtuosos Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman.
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA is a lush, sweeping historical and romantic epic, featuring gorgeous period costumes, primarily the exquisite kimono worn by the geisha. Ziyi Zhang (HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) is outstanding as Sayuri, who stands up to the oppressive Hatsumomo (the effervescent Gong Li), while Michelle Yeoh, who starred with Zhang in CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, is splendid as the wise and elegant Mameha. Ken Watanabe (THE LAST SAMURAI), Koji Yakusho (SHALL WE DANCE'), and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (ELEKTRA) are among the men who take an interest in Sayuri, who is continually faced with difficult choices that will shape her destiny, just as Japan's destiny is changing shape with the coming of the West. John Williams's soaring score is enhanced by solos from virtuosos Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman.
Keywords:
Prostitution
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Romance
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Slavery
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World War II
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Betrayal
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Theatrical Release
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Japan
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Women
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Based On A Novel
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 124,625
- UPC: 043396142411
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