Rated PG-13 for mature subject matter and some sexual content.
Awards
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Won 3 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 27 nominations
Genre
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Drama / Romance
Sound Mix
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DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS
Country
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USA
Overwiew :Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. WWII / Betrayal / Colonel / Jealousy / Japanese Culture
Starring :Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Kaori Momoi, Tsai Chin, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Suzuka Ohgo, Gong Li, Randall Duk Kim, Mako, Kenneth Tsang, Thomas Ikeda, Zoe Weizenbaum, Karl Yune, Ted Levine, Shizuko Hoshi, Togo Igawa, Samantha Futerman, Elizabeth Sung, David Okihiro, Miyako Tachibana, Kotoko Kawamura, Eugenia Yuan, Yoko Narahashi, Navia Nguyen, Natsuo Tomita, Fumi Akutagawa, Koji Toyoda, Steve Terada, Laura Miro, Diane Mizota, Yasusuke Uike, Shuhei Nagao, Kiyoshi Sugawa, Ren Urano, Ace Yonamine, Anthony Begonia, Dino Rivera, Takayo Fischer, Asako Takasue, Clarissa Park, Nobuyuki Matsuhisa, Jim Leung, Chad Cleven, Cameron Duncan, Faith Shin, Brannon Bates, Paul Adelstein, Michelle Camaya, Janelle Dote, Kim Hazel, Ashia Meyers, Laura Miro, Shiho Miyazawa, Diane Mizota, Minae Noji, Mami Saito, Kiyoks Miyazaki, Shannon Abero, Kiyoko Ando, Miki Fujita, Chieko Hidaka, Wendy Lam, Kana Miyamoto, Brooke Miyasaki, Nao Nojima, Shelly Oto, Nikki Tuazon, Addie Yungmee, Cassidy Adams, Celena Ahn, Allison Chan, Deziree Del Rosario, Emilie Endow, Rosie Endow, Emma Fusako Ishii, Hannah Hwang, Amy Saki Kawakami, Stefani Lee, Teanna Lee, Melissa Morinishi, Michelle Obi, Kasey Okazaki, Jacqueline Osaki, Aya Oyama, Jade Refuerzo, Meng Shi, Stacy Suzuki, Miwa Tachibana, Jordan Tambara, Shaye Uyematsu, Etsuo Hongo, Tateo Takahashi, Maza Yoshizawa
Producers :
Patty Whitcher, Bobby Cohen, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Steven Spielberg, John DeLuca, Leann Stonebreaker
Writers :
Robin Swicord, Doug Wright, Arthur S. Golden
Critic Reviews
Grade
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - William Arnold : ...the movie works off its trio of delicious star performances... more...
B+
San Francisco Chronicle - Mick LaSalle : ...the film is too labored and the story too overstuffed and cliched to incite passion in an audience. more...
C+
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers : ...puts new luster on the word 'gorgeous.' more...
B
ReelViews - James Berardinelli : ...it has much to recommend it, but this will not go down as one of the great screen romances of the 2000s. more...
B
New York Times - Manohla Dargis : ...one of those bad Hollywood films that by virtue of their production values nonetheless afford a few dividends... more...
C
New York Post - Kyle Smith : Beautiful bore. more...
C
Hollywood Reporter - Kirk Honeycutt : A respectable film version of best seller that nevertheless misses the novel's subtleties. more...
B-
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum : ...flatly picturesque... more...
C+
E! Online - ...gorgeous to look at--but that's about it. : http://www.eonline.com/Facts/Movies/Reviews/0,1052,89076,00.html more...
Chicago Tribune - Michael Phillips : ...all fabric and no flesh... more...
C
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert : I suspect that the more you know about Japan and movies, the less you will enjoy Memoirs of a Geisha. more...
B-
Boston Globe - Ty Burr : ...its commercial compromises cripple it as a movie. more...
B-
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Eleanor Ringel Gillespie : A beautiful bore. more...
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