I suspect that the more you know about Japan and movies, the less you will enjoy "Memoirs of a Geisha." Much of what I know about Japan I have learned from Japanese movies, and on that basis I know ...

The mysterious world opened up to readers by Arthur Golden's international best-seller has been moved to the bigscreen with beauty and tact in "Memoirs of a Geisha." The combo of the subject's ...

Arthur Golden’s 1997 novel “Memoirs of a Geisha” is an addictive read: an involving, almost Dickensian tale of a young woman’s rise from poverty in a fishing village to fame as a Kyoto geisha in the ...

This adaptation of Arthur Golden's acclaimed novel offers fans the full monty on DVD, including two commentaries, eleven featurettes and a cookbook full of recipes. In terms of the new film Memoirs of ...

WHEN Chinese actress Gong Li makes her American film debut in “Memoirs of a Geisha” this Friday, it’ll be in a role some see as deliciously close to real life. Not that she’s a treacherous schemer ...

The posters of geishas -- everywhere -- were driving Scott Tadashi Tsuchitani bonkers. "When I first saw those images throughout the city, it annoyed me," says the Bay Area native of the omnipresent ...

Ah, the Christmas movie season. What better time for Hollywood to serve up a big prestige picture designed to open our eyes to the quaint cultures of other lands? This year: All aboard the Orient ...

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In Memoirs of a Geisha, a flatly picturesque prestige adaptation of the roundly handsome 1997 middlebrow literary bestseller by Arthur Golden, ubiquitous Chinese actress Ziyi Zhang, who plays the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Other than proving that you can make a lousy movie about Japan using Chinese actors and American ...

In terms of the new film Memoirs of a Geisha, let's get all of the biases out of the way from the get-go: I have never read the book upon which the film is based. I am not a fan of Rob Marshall, whose ...