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	Immortal Geisha - Memoirs of a Geisha FAQ
		I first read Memoirs of a Geisha shortly after it was first published and released in Australia in 1998 and have read it a few other times over the past years.
		Memoirs of a Geisha is a fictional novel written by Arthur Golden.
		The second geisha he spoke with, and whom he gives a lot of credit to in helping him understand the geisha world is Mineko Iwasaki, who was a very famous maiko and geiko in Gion, Kyoto.
	www.immortalgeisha.com /faq_memoirs_geisha.php (904 words)

	Memoirs of a Geisha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Memoirs of a Geisha is a novel by Arthur Golden, published in 1997.
		With her success and her virginity sold, Sayuri not only becomes a highly successful geisha, but she also manages to pay off all the debts that bound her to the Nitta okiya when she was a maid and is adopted by the mistress of the okiya.
		After the Japanese edition of Memoirs of a Geisha was published, Arthur Golden was sued for breach of contract and defamation of character by Mineko Iwasaki, a retired geisha he had interviewed for background information while writing the novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Memoirs_of_a_Geisha (2103 words)

	Amazon.de: Memoirs of a Geisha.: Bücher: Arthur Golden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Readers experience the entire life of a geisha, from her origins as an orphaned fishing-village girl in 1929 to her triumphant auction of her mizuage (virginity) for a record price as a teenager to her reminiscent old age as the distinguished mistress of the powerful patron of her dreams.
		We discover that a geisha is more analogous to a Western "trophy wife" than to a prostitute--and, as in Austen, flat-out prostitution and early death is a woman's alternative to the repressive, arcane system of courtship.
		Her villainous geisha nemesis is sharply drawn, but she would be more so if we got a deeper peek into the cause of her motiveless malignity--the plight all geisha share.
	www.amazon.de /Memoirs-a-Geisha-Arthur-Golden/dp/0099282852 (1445 words)

	Japan Blog
		However, unlike geishas, the oiran were prostitutes, although they were considered to be elite prostitutes.
		According to Liza Dalby, an American anthropologist who did research on geishas, the misunderstandings are probably due to the fact that there is no comparable group to them in other societies and so people have no basis on which to compare them to.
		Geishas are often mistaken by people as some kind of elite prostitutes, which is definitely not the case.
	www.geishablog.com (833 words)

	Filmtracks: Memoirs of a Geisha (John Williams)
		As much a historical documentary as it is a close character story, Memoirs of a Geisha is a project that immediately attracted the very public attention of director Steven Spielberg, and a film adaptation was to be one of his triumphs sometime between 2001 and 2003.
		One person who made sure to work Memoirs of a Geisha into his schedule was composer John Williams, whose relationship with Spielberg is so strong that he composed music for both this film and Munich (the 1972 Olympics docudrama) in 2005 rather than continue his relationship with the Harry Potter franchise.
		As a character story, Williams' work for Memoirs of a Geisha is restrained and intimate, refraining from any semblance of the pounding, robust scores for Revenge of the Sith and War of the Worlds earlier in the year.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/memoirs_geisha.html (838 words)

	SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
		Those interested in Japanese culture (geishas, 1930s and 1940s era living, etc.) or who are fans of anyone in the cast might be interested in it, but beyond that, older teens seem the most likely audience among kids.
		MICHELLE YEOH plays a geisha who serves as Sayuri's mentor and trains her in the ways of becoming a geisha, all while trying to earn the most for the deflowering of Sayuri and constantly needing to ward off Hatsumomo's attempts to sabotage them.
		While training Sayuri to be a geisha, Mameha tells her that they're not courtesans, and that they sell their skills and not their bodies to their clients.
	www.screenit.com /movies/2005/memoirs_of_a_geisha.html (3162 words)

	Memoirs of a Geisha - Drama Movies
		Memoirs of a Geisha, based on the best-selling novel by Arthur Golden, is a visual delight, easily one of the most pleasing films to the eye in a long time.
		Set in Japan in the 1930's, Memoirs follows the life of Chiyo, a girl who at the age of 9 is sold to a geisha house by her father when her mother is taken ill.
		Memoirs of a Geisha is nominated for Academy Awards in: Art Direction, Cinematography, Costume, Sound Mixing, and Sound Editing.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art40257.asp (638 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel at Epinions.com
		Memoirs of a Geisha is not a biography, nor is it a ghost-written novel.
		The story is told in the voice of Sayuri in retrospect, as she discusses all of the trials and tribulations she faced as a Geisha.
		Memoirs of a Geisha is set in New York City, Kyoto, Gion and Yoroido.
	www.epinions.com /content_162899398276 (482 words)

	Memoirs Of A Geisha
		Memoirs of a Geisha is every bit as beautiful a film that you can imagine when hearing the name, Rob Marshall creates a masterpiece companion film to the best seller book of the same name.
		Geisha is a powerful film about the testament to a woman's will and desire to love.
		Memoirs of a Geisha was written by a white American man, and the film was a completely American production from start to finish.
	www.dvd-dweeb.com /reviews/memoirsofageisha.htm (893 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Memoirs of A Geisha is an epic drama about the remote and shimmeringly exotic world of Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geishas.
		We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes.
		In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/memoirs_of_a_geisha.asp (1343 words)

	Buy.com - Memoirs of a Geisha (2-Disc Widescreen) : DVD : Ziyi Zhang : Ken Watanabe : Michelle Yeoh : Li Gong : Rob ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Memoirs of a Geisha is luxurious, ethereal and intoxicating.
		As Sayuri is trained in the art of being a geisha, learning how to walk, talk, dance, and serve (up to a point) in order to please and honor her distinguished male clients, World War II looms on the horizon, threatening to upend Japan and its old ways.
		MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA is a lush, sweeping historical and romantic epic, featuring gorgeous period costumes, primarily the exquisite kimono worn by the geisha.
	www.buy.com /prod/Memoirs_of_a_Geisha/q/loc/107/202287129.html (1337 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Memoirs of a Geisha (xhtml)
		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 this is not a movie about actual geishas, but depends on the romanticism of female subjection.
		Geisha lore hints that they do fall in love with clients, but the operative word is "client" and the love is not free.
		Nobody wants it to be -- not the geisha, who is earning her living, or the client, who is using money to control a woman while maintaining his independence and, for that matter, to observe a distinction between his geisha and his wife.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051215/REVIEWS/51213001/1023 (1117 words)

	Amazon.ca: Memoirs of a Geisha: Books: Arthur Golden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		We discover that a geisha is more analogous to a Western "trophy wife" than to a prostitute--and, as in Austen, flat-out prostitution and early death is a woman's alternative to the repressive, arcane system of courtship.
		Her villainous geisha nemesis is sharply drawn, but she would be more so if we got a deeper peek into the cause of her motiveless malignity--the plight all geisha share.
		The resident geisha at her okiya is a jealous and arrogant woman named Hatsumomo, who sabotages Chiyo's progress towards becoming a geisha herself, leaving Chiyo in the unenviable position of being a maid for the rest of her life.
	www.amazon.ca /Memoirs-Geisha-Arthur-Golden/dp/067697175X (2251 words)

	Memoirs of a Geisha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The geisha in the story take an odd pride in the fact that they’re “better” than the street prostitutes, since they offer a touch of class and companionship along with their bodies.
		Ultimately, the geisha aspire to be transparent, transient beings, useful only for pouring tea for their clients or laughing at their awkward jokes.
		After being beaten with reeds for a few years, Chiyo is taken under the wing of Mameha (Michelle Yeoh), a famous geisha who received the highest bid on record for her virginity during the auction process that transforms a girl from dominated geisha in training to officially paid geisha as prostitute.
	www.pajiba.com /memoirs-of-a-geisha.htm (773 words)

	Memoirs of a Geisha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		For a film with tremendous potential to explore incendiary human emotions, Memoirs of a Geisha is chilly and detached, eventually losing the audience.
		Sayuri's goal is to catch the Chairman's attention, but in a crafty move designed to thwart Hatsumomo, Sayuri feigns interest in the Chairman's business partner, Nobu (Koji Yakusho), a scarred veteran who mistakes her acting for the real thing.
		A movie with "Memoirs" in the title doesn't exactly scream "fast-moving" but this film is slower than you can imagine.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/1223geisha1223.html (505 words)

	Memoirs of a Geisha - Zhang Ziyi at HelloZiyi.us
		Memoirs of a Geisha is a refreshingly unique and layered tale of twisted and hidden love, repressed desires, and the art of deception, both as a profession and as a necessity...
		An advance screening of Memoirs of a Geisha, available to the public, will be held in San Francisco on Nov. 30th, sponsored as fundraiser by the San Francisco Parks Trust.
		Memoirs of a Chinese-American Geisha - If the coming story in film is globalization, "Memoirs of a Geisha," set for a Christmas release by Sony Pictures, may one day be seen as a movie at the tipping point.
	www.helloziyi.us /Movies/memoirs-of-a-geisha.htm (4830 words)

	Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) - Talk - Spout
		The head geisha of her house, however, Hatsumomo (Gong Li), is bitterly jealous of Chiyo and abuses her at every opportunity.
		Apparently, modern Japanese geishas who were shown the book in translation said they were amazed that a white, Canadian male could have such an understanding of their culture and lifestyle.
		Despite some use of the protagonist's inner monologue, the audience is left too often on the outside of Saiyuri's most defining experiences: her climb to geisha stardom, her bitter rivalry with geisha Hatsumomo, and her intense love for a man known as The Chairman.
	www.spout.com /films/MemoirsofaGeisha/238125/default.aspx (738 words)

	Memoirs of Geisha by Arthur Golden - Book Review
		Chiyo, the unusually pretty daughter of an impoverished fishing family is sold into slavery to an established geisha house in distant Kyoto where her name becomes Sayuri.
		The lives of the women who practice the meticulous arts of the geisha, and Gion, the enigmatic and merciless geisha district, are poignantly portrayed through her memoirs of survival in a brutally competitive place.
		When Japan becomes involved in the Second World War, the timeless pocket of Gion is finally broken, forcing Sayuri to reinvent herself and her reality once more.
	www.libdex.com /Book3.htm (149 words)

	Memoirs of a Geisha
		The strikingly pretty child of an impoverished fishing family, Chiyo is taken to faraway Kyoto and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house where she is renamed Sayuri.
		Through her eyes, we are given a backstage view of the ancient and secretive geisha district, Gion, and of the lives of the women who learn and practice the rigorous arts of the geisha.
		Memoirs of a Geisha is a treasure of a book, an unparalleled look at a strange and mysterious world which has now almost vanished.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/read/geisha (1149 words)

	Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Despite popular western misconceptions about Geishas, there's no sex, almost no violence and beyond that, there's nearly two and a half hours of women's problems that many men may find hard to relate to.
		But that, when dealing with a topic like Japanese geisha culture, is a pretty small audience in America, too small to generate the kind of box office a film like this needs to pull in to pay for itself.
		"Memoirs of a Geisha" ranks among my five best films of the year thus far, and deserves a best picture nomination.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0397535 (785 words)

	Apple - Trailers - Memoirs of a Geisha
		Based on the internationally acclaimed novel by Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha is a sweeping romantic epic set in a mysterious and exotic world that still casts a potent spell today.
		The story begins in the years before WWII when a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
		Memoirs of a Geisha (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
	www.apple.com /trailers/sony_pictures/memoirsofageisha (98 words)

	Memoirs of a Geisha Movie Review - Memoirs of a Geisha Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		The film version of ''Memoirs of a Geisha" is very like a geisha itself: a thing of exquisitely refined surfaces beneath which beats an ordinary heart.
		The early scenes of ''Memoirs" focus on the Dickensian cruelty of Chiyo's life -- her attempted escapes, Hatsumomo's sadistic games -- graced only by the girl's encounter with the Chairman (Ken Watanabe, ''The Last Samurai"), a kindly businessman she meets at a low point.
		Yeoh becomes the chief glory of ''Memoirs" -- her Mameha is a master strategist with steel nerves hidden under silk and graciousness -- and Sayuri blossoms under her tutelage.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=7803 (855 words)

	Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Nitta and Mameha's discussion of Chiyo's future, and the camera zooms in on the girls' eyes peering through the crack in the door, Chiyo's eyes move very fast and you can clearly see Chiyo's blue contact, since it does not move with the rest of her eye.
		After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen.
		Except for some verbal back-and-forth between the two and a few dirty tricks from Gong, there was no reason to believe why she was the most famous geisha in Japan before Ziyi arrived.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0397535 (755 words)

	Arthur Golden - "Memoirs of a Geisha"
		Readers experience the obstacles and triumphs of a highly successful geisha known as Sayuri, from the time she was sold by her parents to a geisha family, to the triumphant auction of her mizuage and her reminiscent old age in Manhattan.
		Most of the story centers on the geisha's coming of age in Gion (the geisha district), struggles with rivals and her search for love during the 1930s and 1940s.
		We witness her struggle from maid, to apprentice and finally an actual geisha, and learn just what it is like to live solely to entertain and be perfect.
	bookreviews.nabou.com /reviews/memoirs_of_a_geisha.html (611 words)

	Memoirs of a Geisha -:: JaponOnline.com - il Giappone a portata di mano:: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Memoirs of a Geisha -:: JaponOnline.com - il Giappone a portata di mano::
		Si tratta di "Memoirs of a Geisha" di Arthur Golden.
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	Memoirs of a Geisha - Rotten Tomatoes
		Geisha offers a colorful glimpse that is as alien to most Western audiences as the dark side of the moon.
		Memoirs of a Geisha is worthwhile on many levels, although it lacks the depth of feeling that would have elevated it from a good movie to a romance for the ages.
		Shot for shot, Memoirs of a Geisha is one of the most beautiful movies in years, with due credit to Don Beebe's widescreen camera work, John Myhre's meticulous production design and Colleen Atwood's opulent costumes.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/memoirs_of_a_geisha (1061 words)

	Book reviews of Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.
		In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love, always elusive, is scorned as illusion.
		Memoirs of a Geisha is a book of nuances and vivid metaphor, of memorable characters rendered with humor and pathos.
		Memoirs of a Geisha evokes all the delicate steel of Kyoto's geisha culture with such uncanny fidelity that, after you've finished, you feel as if you've entered not just another world, but an extraordinary and foreign heart.
	www.bookbrowse.com /reviews/index.cfm?book_number=332 (993 words)

	Reviews by Nathaniel R. for thefilmexperience.net
		Memoirs of a Geisha is proud to flaunt the beauty of all its actors, locales, and designs (The crew do exemplary work across the board) but like Hatsumomo herself who is locked up in the Geisha house in one key sequence, this film is all dressed up with nowhere particularly in mind to go.
		Like Sayuri herself, the film seems initially fascinated with geisha culture only to invest most of its time, energy, and heart in her determinedly dull romantic love for a rich older man who gave her sweets as a child.
		In Memoirs of a Geisha Sayuri's limited and distorted point-of-view is meant to be shared.
	www.thefilmexperience.net /Reviews/memoirs.html (941 words)

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