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Memoirs of a Geisha(Movie, 2005)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 26min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love, History
Memoirs of a GeishaRating: 3.8/5 (with 13261,326 votes)
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. 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 "Sayuri Nitta." The film centers around the sacrifices and hardship faced by pre-World War II geisha, and the challenges posed by the war and a modernizing world to geisha society. It stars Zhang Ziyi in the lead role, with Ken Watanabe, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Youki Kudoh, Suzuka Ohgo, and Sa..."> ()
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Awards & Nominations for Memoirs of a Geisha

Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Production Design National Board of Review: Top Ten Films Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Sound Editing Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Sound

About Memoirs of a Geisha

A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

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Additional Information

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Plays in: Kyoto
Based on the work of: Arthur Golden ("Memoirs of a Geisha")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Japanese (JA)
Translated into 31 languages: Belarusian (BE), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 01/18/2006 (World premiere: 12/06/2005)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"サユリ"
"นางโลม โลกจารึก"

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:2991, Added: 02/07/2018, Last updated: 03/09/2024