| Memoirs of a Geisha (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Rob Marshall
Actors: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Suzuka Ohgo, Togo Igawa
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  324 reviews
Sales Rank: 3078
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 145
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: COLD11159D
UPC: 043396111592
EAN: 0043396111592
ASIN: B000EHRVMY
Theatrical Release Date: December 23, 2005
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Disc ONLY. NO case or artwork. Disc has marks/scratches. Plays fine or your money back.
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Product Description
In the years before wwii a japanese child is torn from her poor family to work at a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha sayuri. Beautiful & accomplished sayuri captivates the most powerful men of her day but love eludes her Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 10/03/2006 Starring: Zhang Siyi Michelle Yeoh Run time: 145 minutes Rating: Pg13
Amazon.com
Chicago director Rob Marshall's pretty but empty (or pretty empty) film has all the elements of an Oscar contender: solid adaptation (from Arthur Golden's bestseller), beautiful locale, good acting, lush cinematography. But there's something missing at the heart, which leaves the viewer sucked in, then left completely detached from what's going on. It's hard to find fault with the fascinating story, which traces a young girl's determination to free herself from the imprisonment of scullery maid to geisha, then from the imprisonment of geisha to a woman allowed to love. Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo), a young girl with curious blue eyes, is sold to a geisha house and doomed to pay off her debt as a cleaning girl until a stranger named The Chairman (Ken Watanabe) shows her kindness. She is inspired to work hard and become a geisha in order to be near the Chairman, with whom she has fallen in love. An experienced geisha (Michelle Yeoh) chooses to adopt her as an apprentice and to use as a pawn against her rival, the wicked, legendary Hatsumomo (Gong Li). Chiyo (played as an older woman by Ziyi Zhang), now renamed Sayuri, becomes the talk of the town, but as her path crosses again and again with the Chairman's, she finds the closer she gets to him the further away he seems. Her newfound "freedom" turns out to be trapping, as men are allowed to bid on everything from her time to her virginity. Some controversy swirled around casting Chinese actresses in the three main Japanese roles, but Zhang, Yeoh and Gong in particular ably prove they're the best for the part. It's admirable that all the actors attempted to speak Japanese-accented English, but some of the dialogue will still prove difficult to understand; perhaps it contributes to some of the emotion feeling stilted. Geisha has all the ingredients of a sweeping, heartbreaking epic and follows the recipe to a T, but in the end it's all dressed up with no place to go.--Ellen A. Kim
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 I Always Love This Movie November 2, 2008
I love how quick i got the movie after i ordered it and there where no scratches on the disc or anything thanks for it being in such great condition
Passionate reworking of the book September 27, 2008
"Memoirs of a Geisha" both book and film, should be one of those films I should love to hate but don't. Instead, I found myself captivated by the lush world, especially that brought to the big screen. Despite the surpring little multi-culture event that went on with the movie, it is just as wondrous and passionate as the book, with more inclination toward the "fairy tale" side of things. Which, if not necessarily historically accurate, is fine with a fairy tale freak such as myself. The acting is sensational, and the film is finely crafted. It's a wonderful story that does very well as a movie, even to the point of becoming breath-taking.
Great But Dosen't Do The Book Any Justice September 10, 2008
I love this film but as always the book is better than the movie and there were things I read in the book that they decided not to put in screenplay which is understandable to me but still as my review says. The film itself didn't do the book any justice
memoirs of a geisha blu-ray August 23, 2008
great movie colors really pop i also recommend the last samurai on blu-ray the colors and picture quality are amazing.
Great Movie August 8, 2008
100th time watching the movie but this was my first time watching it in Hi Def and it's that much better.
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