| | Memoirs Of A Geisha DVD (4 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Romance Movies, Based On A Novel Videos, World War II, Betrayal, Japan, Prostitution, Women, Slavery | | Starring | Ken Watanabe, Ziyi Zhang, Mako, Gong Li, Koji Yakusho, Michelle Khan | | Director | Rob Marshall | | Additional Music/Songs | Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman | | Composer | John Williams | | Director of Photography | Dion Beebe | | Executive Producer | Gary Barber, Bobby Cohen, Patricia Whitcher | | Producer | Steven Spielberg, Roger Birnbaum, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher | | Screenwriter | Robin Swicord, Doug Wright |
Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, and Gong Li star in this film directed by Rob Marshall. A Cinderella story set in a mysterious and exotic world, this stunning romantic epic shows how a house servant blossoms, against all odds, to become the most captivating geisha of her day. Special features include The Look of a Geisha, Music of the film, Rob Marshall feature, 2 audio commentaries. 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.
Theatrical Release: December 9, 2005
Memoirs Of A Geisha Reviews: "Dion Beebe's gorgeous cinematography is delivered with sharp images..."
-- Suzanne Hodges, Widescreen Review 3 stars out of 5 -- "Zhang is loveliness incarnate. And the great Michelle Yeoh, her co-star in CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, possesses a touching gravity..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "The exquisite Ms. Gong looks like a gift that keeps on giving when trussed up in silk, but she and the film come most alive when her hair tumbles down and she sashays about the okiya, stirring the air with her tremulous rage."
-- Manohla Dargis, New York Times "As beautiful-looking a film as you'll see....Often magical."
-- Chris Roberts, Uncut "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..."
-- Leslie Felperin, Sight and Sound Memoirs Of A Geisha | List Price | $19.94 (You save $6.39) | | Studio | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 2005 | | All Time Sales Rank |  4375  | | CD Universe Part number | 7042166 | | Catalog number | 11159 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Mar 28, 2006 | | Rating | PG-13 (MPAA) | | Running Time | 145 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled; 2-Disc Set |
Memoirs Of A Geisha Video Memoirs Of A Geisha Movie Review Average Rating: (4.8 out of 5 stars)  get your popcorn and drink ready.
If your fond of old back in time movies, this is the one to view. Its surroundings of hardship and triumpth, good vs evil, greed and envy, love and sorrow are all in one terrific movie.
Submitted by antonia727 (Flower Mound, Texas) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  Great Performances!
Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, & Michelle Yeoh give outstanding performances and I believe that all 3 should've recieved Oscar nods.
Submitted by themighty91 (Indianapolis, IN)
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ABSOLUTELY EXQUISITE!
The movie is spectacular from start to finish! Spectacular scenery in Japan, explosive acting from Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang and esp from the exquisite Ms Gong li who plays such a cruel, wicked and jealous young woman.
The film is a sweeping love story who everyone simply MUST see!
Submitted by brynz (Turkey)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Best film of 2005
This is one of those movies that one must run out and buy as soon as they are available. This is a breathtaking film full of beauty, sorrow, cruelty, kindness, desire and revenge. The main characters light up the screen with their gentle natures and believable personalities. They are also very easy to look at. I fell in love with this film.
Submitted by Becky (Weatherford, TX)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No I LOOOVE THIS MOVIE
This is one of the best movies i have ever seen.
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Memoirs Of A Geisha DVD 2-Disc Set
Full Frame -
1.33
Widescreen - 2.39
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Bonus Footage: Geisha Bootcamp
Audio Commentary:
1. Colleen Atwood, John Myhre, Pietro Scali - Costume Design, Production Design, Editor
2. Rob Marshall and John DeLuca - Director and Co-Producer
Featurette:
1. Sayuri's Other Journey: From the Novel to the Screen
2. The Road to Japan"
3. Building the Hanamachi
4. The Look of a Geisha
5. The Music of MEMOIRS
6. A Geisha's Dance
7. The World of a Geisha
8. The Way of a Sumo
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