Memoirs of a Geisha

2005

146 mins

Directed by Rob Marshall
Recommended
36%
83%
Drama
Romance

Ziyi Zhang (House of Flying Daggers), Ken Watanabe (Inception) and Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) star in this... More

Ziyi Zhang (House of Flying Daggers), Ken Watanabe (Inception) and Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) star in this romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, where a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house. Based on the novel by Arthur Golden and nominated for six Oscars—winning three for cinematography, art direction, and costume design.

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Memoirs of a Geisha | Ratings & Reviews

Best Cinematography, Art Direction and Costume Design, Academy Awards 2006; Best Cinematography and Costume Design, BAFTAs 2006

36_%166 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
83_%465,103 reviews
Audience score rating

"Each. Word. Of. Dialogue. Sounds. As. If. It. Were. Punctuated. By. A. Full. Stop. Which. Robs. The. Language. Of. Its. Watery. Flow. And... Gives. New. Meaning. To. The. Definition. Of. The. Period. Movie."

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The New York Times

"I suspect that the more you know about Japan and movies, the less you will enjoy Memoirs of a Geisha."

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Roger Ebert

"(It is) pure, undiluted Hollywood, with all its consequent strengths and weaknesses."

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The Guardian

"Memoirs of a Geisha hurts the heart and the brain with its crushing monotony (and) inert, sub-human dialogue..."

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The Telegraph

"Given the film’s thin social perspective and parade of cardboard villainy, after a while it all comes to strangely resemble a Walt Disney animation."

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Slant Magazine

"An extravagant, relentlessly gorgeous melodrama, Geisha luxuriates in its own exquisite weepiness..."

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Los Angeles Times

"A beautiful, exotic and well-acted cultural hybrid, but it's never as moving as it ought to be."

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Empire Magazine

"Memoirs Of A Geisha is an arduous experience, especially when you're faced with two hours of unsteady acting and an unconvincing, melodramatic plot."

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SBS

"Unlike the geisha, this adaptation does wear its heart on its sleeve, but a fine cast, including the regal Michelle Yeoh, create a picture of composure."

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