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Memoirs of a Geisha
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.
2005 · Directed by Rob Marshall · 146 min · Drama · Romance · History · 8 frames
Tagline
A story like mine has never been told.
Crew
- Screenplay: Robin Swicord
- Cinematography: Dion Beebe
- Edited by: Pietro Scalia
- Music: John Williams
- Production design: John Myhre
- Produced by: Steven Spielberg, Lucy Fisher, Douglas Wick
Cast
- Zhang Ziyi as Sayuri
- Gong Li as Hatsumomo
- Michelle Yeoh as Mameha
- Ken Watanabe as Chairman
- Suzuka Ohgo as Chiyo
- Kaori Momoi as Mother
- Koji Yakusho as Nobu
- Youki Kudoh as Pumpkin
- Togo Igawa as Tanaka
- Mako as Sakamoto
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Japanese
- Studios: Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Amblin Entertainment
- Budget: $85,000,000
- Box office: $162,242,962
- Themes: secret love, japan, prostitute, sibling relationship, geisha, brothel, mentor, world war ii, loss of virginity, period drama
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