One day, while crying on a riverbank, Chiyo encounters Chairman Ken Iwamura. Satsu flees Kyoto and Chiyo never sees her again. As a result, Mother stops investing in Chiyo's geisha training and instead makes her a menial servant to pay off her debts. When Chiyo tries to escape via the rooftops, she falls and is injured. They make plans to run away the following night. Hoping Chiyo will run away, Hatsumomo tells her where she can find Satsu in the red light district. Hatsumomo, seeing Chiyo as a potential rival, immediately treats her with abuse. Pumpkin and Chiyo soon begin their education to become future geisha. Chiyo also meets "Granny" and "Auntie", the other women who run the house Pumpkin, another young girl and the okiya's resident geisha, Hatsumomo. Chiyo is taken in by Kayoko Nitta, known as "Mother", the proprietress of a local okiya Satsu, deemed too unattractive, is sent to a brothel instead. In 1929, Chiyo Sakamoto and her older sister Satsu are sold off by their poor father and taken to Gion, Kyoto. ![]() The Japanese release of the film was titled Sayuri, the titular character's geisha name. The acting, visuals, sets, costumes, and the musical score (composed by Spielberg's long time collaborator John Williams) were praised, but the film was criticized for casting some non-Japanese actresses as Japanese women and for its style over substance approach. It was also nominated for and won numerous awards, including nominations for six Academy Awards, and eventually won three: Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. The film was released to polarized reviews from critics worldwide and was moderately successful at the box office. It was released a limited release in the United States on Decemand a wide release on December 23, 2005, by Columbia Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures, with the latter receiving studio credit only. Production was split between southern and northern California and a number of locations in Kyoto, including the Kiyomizu temple and the Fushimi Inari shrine. The film was produced by Steven Spielberg (through production companies Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures) and Douglas Wick (through Red Wagon Entertainment). ![]() It stars Zhang Ziyi in the lead role, with Ken Watanabe, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Youki Kudoh, Suzuka Ohgo, and Samantha Futerman. 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. 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.
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