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Memoirs of a Geisha
Starring: Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Youki Kudoh, Koji Yakusho, Karl Yune
Directed by: Rob Marshall
Screenplay by: Ron Bass, Akiva Goldsman
Release Date: December 23, 2005
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mature subject matter and sexual content.
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures
Domestic: $57,490,508 (35.4%)
Foreign: $104,752,454 (64.6%)
Total: $162,242,962 (Worldwide)
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![]() Tagline: “My world is as forbidden as it is fragile; without its mysteries, it cannot survive.”
In 1997, novelist Arthur Golden offered readers an intoxicating and riveting story of a hidden world in his acclaimed novel, Memoirs of a Geisha. The sweeping romantic epic spent two years on The New York Times best-seller list, sold more than four million copies in English, and has been translated into 32 languages.
Now, Oscar-nominated director Rob Marshall (Chicago) and producers Lucy Fisher, & Douglas Wick and Steven Spielberg, along with an acclaimed international cast and an award-winning behind-the-camera team have brought this mesmerizing fable to the screen.
Set in a mysterious and exotic world which still casts a potent spell today, the story begins in the years before World War II, when a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a servant in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Sayuri.
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