Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh
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. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms in...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 28, 2006
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Flixster Reviews (28,066)
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October 1, 2009I feel lazy for not reading the book first. I really did enjoy this film but I do wish it had been a Japanese production. It was a bit too westernised for my liking. That said, the cinematography and the acting are fantastic!
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December 27, 2008by the time it got interesting i was no longer interested. there was one mesmerising scene in which the protagonist dances on a stage very dramatically. towards the end i saw a fire... some screaming... and some war planes... but by then it was all too late for me to care!
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October 6, 2008The experience of watching this film is mesmerizing. Not only is it beautiful, but the acting is terrific all around. I didn't want it to end. Can't wait to see it again to soak in the atmosphere and story more deeply. The use of color alone is worth studying closely. Later revel...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
December 27, 2005
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
December 27, 2005
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
It is a lush, blushingly romantic portrait of Asian culture as seen through a Western lens. full review
December 22, 2005
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Shot for shot, Memoirs of a Geisha is one of the most beautiful movies in years, with due credit to Don Beebe's widescreen camera work, John Myhre's meticulous production design and Colleen Atwood's o... full review
December 15, 2005
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
I object to the movie not on sociological grounds but because I suspect a real geisha house floated on currents deeper and more subtle than the broad melodrama on display here. full review
December 9, 2005
David Edelstein, Slate
It skips lightly over the surface of its rich material, more preoccupied with making pretty pictures than dipping below the surface so that you can experience the world through the eyes of its traumat... full review
December 9, 2005
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Memoirs of a Geisha is one long oxymoronic exercise in attempting to show delicacy through overkill. full review
December 9, 2005
Claudia Puig, USA Today
With its gorgeous cinematography, costumes and production design, Geisha is a visual feast, but it lacks emotional heft and leaves the viewer strangely unsatisfied. full review
December 9, 2005
Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com
Feels more like a calculated product than a work of art. full review
December 8, 2005
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Slowness doesn't necessarily equal beauty or power or profundity. full review
November 30, 2005
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Any doubts about three Chinese actresses speaking English with Japanese accents vanish in the face of their deeply felt performances and the world Marshall conjures with magical finesse. full review
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August 9, 2007i absilutialy love this movie, i made my Boyfriend watch is at least 50 times! lol, and he didnt mind. thank you!
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June 8, 2007I love this movie I read the book and couldn't wait for the movie. Its one of my sll time fav's
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May 13, 2007Culteral,dramatic,interesting,beautiful depictions, indepth emotional parts. This movie was balanced. It helped me understand the geisha and as well understand women in a chinese culture. I liked this movie although it was long. But long is good because atleast the movie was not crammed. I would say it is for 13+. It isn't for everyone but I found it entertaining.
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April 23, 2007Having recently lived in Japan I really loved this movie. It made me feel like I was there again. It was a great story and I loved it. I have the movie and the book, I think it was very well done, I felt the culture as I watched this movie.
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April 13, 2007Hi....
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April 5, 2007Ok, when I first saw this movie, I was really drawn in by it's beauty. However, I have educated myself, and I now know how truly inaccurate both this movie and the book it is based on really true. If you REALLY want to learn about geisha, read "Geisha, A Life" by Mineko Iwasaki. She is the woman that the book by Arthur Golden is 'based on', and the one who wrote her own book because the book he wrote is inaccurate. She was actually a geisha, and so I trust her more than him. Basically, the film is something that is pretty to look at, but not take seriously. It's just too fictional.
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March 18, 2007This is my favorite movie of all time and I watch it over and over and I almost know all of the lines!
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February 26, 2007This movie is fantasic Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li work well together love it.
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