Memoirs of a Geisha (DVD)

Memoirs of a Geisha was released in 2005. It won three Oscars and awards for costume design, art direction and cinematography. Rightly so! This is a captivating and intriguing story, based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Golden. This historical epic was directed by Rob Marshall, award winning director of 'Chicago' and produced by Lucy Fisher, Douglas Wick and Steven Spielberg. It tells the story of a child taken away from her poor family and sent to work in a Geisha house. The child is selected to train as a Geisha and blossoms into the very popular and respected Geisha, Sayuri. She is beautiful and accomplished in the arts, but also ...  Read the complete review

I brought this DVD from ebay for 3.99 it was a bargain , the film arrived and when I inserted on my I mac, I realised it had great sound effects and pictures, The film is about a girl who has being taken away by a trader from her tent home , the treads men takes her and her sister, the sister is given to another gaisha house and her other sister is given to another geisha house. the girl has beatiful blue eyes and they name her as water , when she is at the house they use her like a slave and make her do all the cleanning and house work, at the age of nine she sees a man in town who buys her a candy , she fells in love with him and to see him again she decides ...  Read the complete review

Chiyo's(Suzuka Ohgo) pale grey eyes have seen much sadness: a dying mother, a father who is impoverished, grieving and forced to sell his children and her sister screaming as she is taken away from her side. All this tragedy before her tenth birthday. Despite the tears and the trauma, these eyes with their clear intensity, are her major asset and her only hope of freedom. These eyes, which change from slate grey to an electrifying blue give her an extraordinary, stunning beauty that is soon recognised by two women who run one of the many okiyas (homes for geishas) in Kyoto. They look upon Chiyo's beauty as an opportunity for making money for their okiya. With training, ...  Read the complete review

I bought both the book and the film at the same time and decided that I would read the book first. However, having read it, cover to cover, found it hard to try and imagine how a film could better the achievement of the book itself, since the pictures conjured up by the written word in this edition were astoundingly detailed, and left the reader with set ideas about the landscape, the characters, and the era covered in the original story by Arthur Golden. I was unsure of how the adaptation by Robin Swicord would work, since the original writer left nothing out. The picture that he painted of the history of a Geisha in the city of Gion was so detailed that before I even ...  Read the complete review

Memoirs of a Geisha ranks quite easily among the most intense and poignant movie that I have ever watched. I read the book prior to watching the film and as in every film adaptations; there are quite a few differences. But I have to say that the depiction of the story was really really realistic in the film. Many of my friends who watched the film with me claimed that it was a harsh attack on feminism and some of them told me that they were quite disgusted by the anti-feminist issues that are depicted all through the film. But in my opinion, Memoirs of a Geisha is more of a cultural, rather than a feminist (or anti-feminist) piece of work. The concept ...  Read the complete review