Memoirs of a Geisha

Drama, Romance

Suzuka Ohgo	Chiyo
Togo Igawa	Tanaka
Samantha Futerman	Satsu
Elizabeth Sung	Sakamoto's Wife
Thomas Ikeda	Mr. Bekku
Li Gong	Hatsumomo
Tsai Chin	Auntie
Kaori Momoi	Mother
Zoe Weizenbaum	Young Pumpkin
Ziyi Zhang	Chiyo/Sayuri
Ken Watanabe
Michelle Yeoh
Koji Yakusho
Gong Li
Ken Tsang
Youki Kudoh
Mako	Sakamoto

Director	Rob Marshall
Producer	Lucy Fisher; Steven Spielberg
Writer	Arthur Golden; Robin Swicord

In 1929 a girl named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society. As a renowned geisha she enters a society of wealth, privilege, and political intrigue. As World War II looms Japan and the geisha's world are forever changed by the onslaught of history.