Memoirs of a Geisha
A story like mine has never been told.
A story like mine has never been told.
Drama, History, Romance
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2005
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In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
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Runtime:
146 min
Release date:
6 Dec 2005
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Japanese
Budget:
$85,000,000
Revenue:
$162,242,962
Awards:
Won 3 Oscars. 32 wins & 47 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
The subject remained interesting enough to this provincial American to accept and ultimately enjoy the film's well-worn romanticism, even with its resignedly tired happy ending.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
18 Jan 2006
rotten:
Memoirs of a Geisha is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.
– Stephen Hunter,
Washington Post,
27 Dec 2005
fresh:
Ultimately, Memoirs of a Geisha compares unfavorably with the book, though it offers pleasures of its own.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
27 Dec 2005
fresh:
... a fascinating glimpse at a lost world of women with skin of porcelain and spines of steel, and the men in their thrall.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
27 Dec 2005
rotten:
... the movie is a well-meaning, vaporous bore, enlivened only by occasional traces of Showgirls-style camp and plasticine tears trickling down impeccably powdered cheeks.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
27 Dec 2005