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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.
30 November 1933, Shanghai, China
2 September 1975, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
30 May 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 September 1950, Tokyo, Japan
25 November 1932, Hardwick, California, USA
29 April 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 September 1991, Seattle, Washington, USA
2 October 1978, Laos
14 October 1954, Happy Valley, Hong Kong
July 30, 2009
It's lush, stylish and a feast for the eyes and ears rather than the heart and soul.
March 01, 2007
For all of its inaccuracies and over-the-top mise-en-scène, Memoirs is quite entertaining.
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.
August 30, 2009
Titanic fraudulence
October 03, 2006
full review in Greek
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.
April 26, 2007
Director Rob Marshall has a sophomore flop on his hands.
December 27, 2005
It is a lush, blushingly romantic portrait of Asian culture as seen through a Western lens.
December 27, 2005
Ultimately, Memoirs of a Geisha compares unfavorably with the book, though it offers pleasures of its own.
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
... a fascinating glimpse at a lost world of women with skin of porcelain and spines of steel, and the men in their thrall.

