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  1. Dec 15, 2005 · Advertisement. I realize that my doubts and footnotes are completely irrelevant to the primary audience for this movie, which wants to see beauty, sex, tradition and exoticism all choreographed into a dance of strategy and desire. "Memoirs of a Geisha" (directed by Rob Marshall of "Chicago") supplies what is required, elegantly and with skill.

  2. 36% Tomatometer 166 Reviews 83% Audience Score 250,000+ Ratings In the 1920s, 9-year-old Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo) gets sold to a geisha house. There, she is forced into servitude, receiving nothing in ...

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    • Rob Marshall
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    • Zhang Ziyi
  3. Apr 9, 2024 · Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Immerse yourself in the mesmerizing world of geishas as a young girl navigates the complexities of tradition, love, and rivalry in pre-war Japan.

  4. Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 10, 2019. Memoirs of a Geisha hurts the heart and the brain with its crushing monotony, inert, sub-human dialogue and Marshall's calculated attempt to sell ...

  5. Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 American epic period drama film directed by Rob Marshall and adapted by Robin Swicord from the 1997 novel of the same name by Arthur Golden. [2] [3] It tells the story of a young Japanese girl, Chiyo Sakamoto, who is sold by her impoverished family to a geisha house ( okiya ) to support them by training as and eventually becoming a geisha under the pseudonym ...

  6. Our review: Parents say ( 4 ): Kids say ( 5 ): Less intriguing than it promises, this film leaves little to the imagination with its series of heavy-handed set pieces. Based on Arthur Golden's novel and directed by the dramatically unsubtle Rob Marshall, Memoirs of a Geisha is disappointingly predictable, unwieldy, and exotified.

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  8. Dec 9, 2005 · Memoirs of a Geisha - Metacritic. 2005. PG-13. Columbia Pictures. 2 h 25 m. Summary Set in a mysterious and exotic world which still casts a potent spell today, the story begins in the years before World War II, when a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a servant in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly ...

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