I love this scene! My most favorite scene ever!!! I especially liked the part where she gets to stop the man with one glance! Ah, the power of a woman's eyes! It's stunning!
the book is so much more intense!!!!!!!! this film is awesome, but still gives the original written version no justice. if your a reader read the book, and see what i mean. its better if you've already read it then seen the movie but whatever lol. gotta read the book 1st then watch this
3:50 I <3 how they include the beautiful fish in the background; such little things in the setting that gives it a dreamlike quality. That fish symbolizes the tranquil, mystical beauty of Japan, just as a Koi fish, and even the Geisha. This floating, perfect world of moving beauty that is mastered by few and reserved only for those who seek it. It's what makes the Geisha so alluring; her world of secrets, beauty, pain, that we can barely understand. The rest is silent; the rest is secret. <3
This is such a well made film and so like the book. Zhang Ziyi is such a rare breed of actress in this generation. She's like the olden film stars, beautiful and actually talented.
Gong Li plays a good Hustumomo and Michelle Yeoh is a great teacher and Zhang Ziyi is the best Sayuri ever. this is my favorite movie ever. my favorite part is a place only of beauty
I love Gong Li...she is amazing in her performance as the twisted Hatsumomo. Ziyi is just so sweet to look at and Michelle Yeoh is from my homeland. :-)
@xxLilly05xx She have to learn sleeping without makes her hair dirty, if that is what you mean? I think it's pretty hard, and my neck would be sore.. :D Geishas are beautiful, but I wouldn't want to be one of them.
@xxLilly05xx She was practicing sleeping with her hair already done. It takes a lot of time for geishas to do their hair and they don't usually have the time to go to the hairdresser every day so they sleep with that thing to keep their hair intact. There's wax in their hair, so the rice is supposed to be motivation to sleep without moving.
@iknowwhereyoulive006 "Look, when was the last time artistic integrity or respect for ethnicities mattered in a mainstream movie? " I think it always matters. My opinion is that people who approach a subject with integrity want to convey the genuine quality of that thing through the media, in this case film. I don't think that happened with this movie. They wanted to make some cash so they put the star from hidden dragon in there. It didn't pan out.
@iknowwhereyoulive006@OctoSnuffaluffagus enterprise or not this movie did badly in the box office and 35% on rotten tomatoes, ouch. I guess those who make cheap decisions for $ deserve to fail. Sometimes it pays to have integrity and keep things authentic. As for Asians thinking it is ok to imitate eachother, check out why the 80's hit "Japanese boy" by Aneka was banned in Japan. Neither China nor Japan appreciate any ambiguity about their cultures.
lmao that part about seeing a glance of the wrist cracks me up! i always think "honey that wouldnt fly over here with american boys...glance of a wrist? girl you please lol"
Not to be a killjoy but I still don't get why they chose to use chinese actors to depict a japanese tradition. Certainly there are many japanese actors who are the actually descend from the japanese culture that create geisha, and would have been much more suitable. Next lets send some american cooks to show the world how to prepare the most traditional chinese cuisine. overall the film was mediocre and i feel they really missed the mark by leaving the japanese out of the film about japan.
@OctoSnuffaluffagus On a visit to Tokyo to promote the film, Zhang Ziyi received a mysterious parcel and letter, revealed to have been sent by an elderly Japanese woman who had once worked as a geisha. In her letter, the woman stated that she had been touched by the trailer of the film and expected the movie to bring back fond memories for her and her friends. Inside the parcel were several exquisitely worked antique kimono. Zhang Ziyi was moved to tears and wore it to the premier in japan.
I still want fans like the ones they are using. I can't find ones that stay open or that have the gap for the twirling. I found geisha makeup online but not those...any suggestions?
Oh, wait,, someone PLEASE answer, what would you call what they are wearing at the dancing scene at 1:51?? im pretty sure that's not a kimono...right?
@LatinCutie86 some kimonos especially intricate and complex ones have a sheer under robe worn underneath i can't quite remember what it's called, but you could look at some diagrams online that could tell you.
People seem to be so black and white about the whole selling yourself for money. You need to filter your perceptions to cope with the practices of different cultures, especially when they're archaic practices. Mizuage happened, though it's now illegal, and just because people want to glamourise the geishas now doesn't mean that this aspect should be airbrushed from history because it makes them uncomfortable.
@xShadowxPhoenix No, the book was pretty accurate. Remember, the author talked to Mineko Iwasaki and lived in Japan for a short while. It was the director, and the fact that the like only japanese actors in this movie were Suzka Ogho, and Ken Watanabe.
@xShadowxPhoenix Well yeah. I've seen the real Mineko Iwasaki story. The made for tv movie, and read the book, but he was very accurate in THIS book is what I'm meaning. Not to Minekos story, but to a geisha lifestyle.
@xshadowxphoenix- that's not all they made it out to be. The author actually did the research and talked to former geishas to get information from the book. Plus they were not prostitutes, they were entertainers. They only slept with buyers of their mizuagi and their dannas. If you lump them in with prostitutes, then you should also throw sugar babies and that girl that sold her virginity into that category. Most of those girls had no choice but to become a Geisha.
too bad the the facts presented in this movie aren't historically accurate!! a geisha never sells her body, even for her debuting, that's a curtisan thing.
@PurpleNymph what do you mean?? geisha's often sold off their virginities to whoever bid highest. This is accurate...if you are talking nowadays, i guess not? i thought they did sometimes sleep with people etc
@TheArnabDas duuuh, where are you getting your information you guys?-.- the prostituts sold their virginity and called it mizuage and the ceremony where a maiko turns into a geisha is called mizuage. it's the same word but not the same thing for a geisha. the virginity thing isn't practised nowadays. i guess film industry created a false image of geisha..
beautiful music, cinematography and acting. the movie however doesnt do justice to the novel (yea how many times have u heard that before! :D). the novel by arthur golden is a must read.
I'm not entierly sure if I'm correct, but doing things like bending their toes back and whatnot is now banned is it not? Can someone tell me? Thanks :)
That was Chinese, It was thought that no man would marry a girl with normal sized feet, so women had to bind their feet in order to secure their futures.
It is banned now. there aren't many women still alive with bound feet.
Question: Is the woman that played Mameyha part asian? Because of her hair, her hair is not poker straight, it has curve, and her face is a little more pronounced than chiyo's. I am very bad at asian culture so if anyone knows....?
read "Geisha, A Life" by Mrs.Iwasaki, model of Memoirs of a Geisha. She sued Arthur Golden,auther of Memoirs of a Geisha, in defamation, because many scandal thing like violence and the virgin rapes are all the tissue of lies.
Although, the movie has done well in summarizing 100pages into 5 min clip. Yet, both book and movie was not all correct in explaining the trandition of Geisha. Chiyo should be a Maiko (Geisha trainee).
@Miracelus in the movie, chiyo said that she is a maiko (she said that soon after she got her geisha name, but i can see how a lot of people would miss that since it was a very subtle and quick moment)
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I know that most of Japanese school girls learn prostitution since junior high school. 14 y.o. schoolgirls in japan go on enjou kosai dates with old men.
And japanese women prostitute themselves for a gucci handbag or plastic surgery.
@xblacktearxheartache They're brushing her hair, in that time it was inappropriate for a geisha to have (that white "snow" in your hair, couldnt find the right word) that is why their skin on their head needed to be "brushed" roughly because otherwise they would get that "snow"
sorry for any misunderstandings, I couldnt find the word for the "snow" in english, so I hope that you understand what I am trying to say ;)
@xblacktearxheartache They heat up wax and comb it though the hair. This keeps it in place, but it it very painful to comb through the hair when it is this hot and it especially hurts to comb through as it starts to harden.
@BlueMoonDarling Ah, I was wondering why the look on Chiyos face was so painful, I first thought it had simply never been brushed before, but natral straight heir doesn't go up into knots like curly hair...If I didn't brush my hair for a month, I could go for the dreadlocks style.
People should really just calm down. It's just a movie. Since when are movies accurate? Jesus. And those who think everything in movies are accurate are complete idiots, I'm sorry to say.
@100808jojggassi thats not true, the whole selling their virginity thing is a rite of passage from maiko to a full geisha. that is the way of a traditional geisha. perhaps ur thinking of the so called 'geishas' that (as said in the movie) put on a kimono and powder their faces and call themselves geisha.
This movie is so wrong. Memoirs of a Geisha showes a misunderstanding with the mizuage-business. Stupid american guy who made the movie.
Oiran and tayu (geisha-looking prostitutes) goes through mizuage as selling their virginity to a high bidder.This is a common misunderstanding since the tayus looks like geishas. in the movie they get selled to a geisha house. those girls who got sold ended up in the pleasure disctricts, nowhere else.
@kattmat As far as I know (and as I read) the ritual of Mizuage really existed. Nowadays it is replaced just by a special ceremony, because the initial ritual was too humiliating for a woman.
Real Geisha's don't 'whore' around, they sold their virginity back in the day, but present day Geisha do not, nor do they sell themselves to men as Danna anymore, at least having a Danna is a very rare occurrence. The book isn't accurate to present day Geisha, and the movie is even further off. I did some research after I read the book. xD They are simply artists now.
the clothing, music and actors were great in this film. It's just so disappointing that the plot and storyboard wasn't as wonderful. sorry to say, but the book was better.
zhang zihi for example is a chinese girl. i don´t know why they decided to take some chinese people to play these japanese parts, maybe because these people are very popular in the western world at the moment? even i can see the difference between japanese and chinese people (and i am a german, and i know many people say, they all look the same, but it´s not true. if you really look at the people you can say if they are from italy, russia, holland,...) but it don´t cares me in this film, maybe
@Zsukki i have to say i have seen a few Japanese actors and they dont even near the skill in acting as zhang who may i point was nominated best actress for this film
@jaeser2 yes the all the geisha women are Chinese except pumpkin and their mother, but the men are Japanese, I thought it was weird too, but it seems that they couldn't find a Japanese girl good enough to play Sayuri ...
@DumDum0022 I read in the book that since it takes a lot of time and effort to do a Geisha's hair, you must practice to sleep without damaging the hair do. They put the rice there so when you fail to sleep correctly, you have to redo the hair all over again...it's kind of like mentally training yourself! :)
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Btw, the book is amazing and the movie is beautiful!
the movie is good. The book is WAY better! :) I've read it four seven times.
mariakai 37 minutes ago
The actress who plays Hatsumomo (Gong Li) is actually 40 years old in that movie
mawiiee6 11 hours ago
They are not Geisha, they look like...just compare, guys!
porta0toda1la2vida 2 days ago
The boy on the bike randomly happens to be Steve Terada. Just sayin...
gzwerpjgbf 2 days ago
I LOVE this scene!
Memiors of a Geisha is a film I watch over and over again because it's so beautiful <3
LoveTheSonic 1 week ago
I love this scene! My most favorite scene ever!!! I especially liked the part where she gets to stop the man with one glance! Ah, the power of a woman's eyes! It's stunning!
rufiredup90 1 week ago
I make the same faces when I get my hair done.
LifeWeAsHoped 2 weeks ago
the book is so much more intense!!!!!!!! this film is awesome, but still gives the original written version no justice. if your a reader read the book, and see what i mean. its better if you've already read it then seen the movie but whatever lol. gotta read the book 1st then watch this
buttafly361 2 weeks ago
3:50 I <3 how they include the beautiful fish in the background; such little things in the setting that gives it a dreamlike quality. That fish symbolizes the tranquil, mystical beauty of Japan, just as a Koi fish, and even the Geisha. This floating, perfect world of moving beauty that is mastered by few and reserved only for those who seek it. It's what makes the Geisha so alluring; her world of secrets, beauty, pain, that we can barely understand. The rest is silent; the rest is secret. <3
Starlightkitty12 2 weeks ago
OMG steve terada
WinterHalloweenRose 3 weeks ago
Mameha s voice can make becoming an assassin sound wonderful..
adimachan 1 month ago 4
This is such a well made film and so like the book. Zhang Ziyi is such a rare breed of actress in this generation. She's like the olden film stars, beautiful and actually talented.
GoldenEraa 1 month ago 4
....and poor boy I mean the bike and the chikens...:(
487Cindy 1 month ago
Michelle yeoh looks alot like my mom. and she's not asian.
nana78748 1 month ago
Zhang Ziyi is so unbelievably beautiful
yaysonic 2 months ago 2
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I LOVE this movie.
fruitikay 2 months ago
I want that makeup set. D:
GaladedridDamodred 2 months ago
I can't wait to live in Japan some day.
anticliche321 2 months ago
at 2:39 she's jealous of her
KaramelLolaBunnie91 2 months ago
i love this part of the film ! Anyone eles agree?
awwesome32123 2 months ago 2
@awwesome32123 absolutely I agree
92InuFan 2 months ago
Gong Li plays a good Hustumomo and Michelle Yeoh is a great teacher and Zhang Ziyi is the best Sayuri ever. this is my favorite movie ever. my favorite part is a place only of beauty
mjfankeepthefaith 2 months ago
U can stop a man in his tracks with one look, made a guy crash his White Honda Civic ; ). (Sorry Mister but he should have kept his eyes on the road)
VeroAngelina 3 months ago
you ARE ready.
xD
HappyWeirdo3 3 months ago
LMFAO STEEEEEVE!
jrnlc 3 months ago 3
I love Gong Li...she is amazing in her performance as the twisted Hatsumomo. Ziyi is just so sweet to look at and Michelle Yeoh is from my homeland. :-)
ReiOn8 3 months ago
what were they doing to her in 3:32 -3:42 ??
xxLilly05xx 3 months ago
@xxLilly05xx She have to learn sleeping without makes her hair dirty, if that is what you mean? I think it's pretty hard, and my neck would be sore.. :D Geishas are beautiful, but I wouldn't want to be one of them.
sesshyliini 3 months ago
@xxLilly05xx She was practicing sleeping with her hair already done. It takes a lot of time for geishas to do their hair and they don't usually have the time to go to the hairdresser every day so they sleep with that thing to keep their hair intact. There's wax in their hair, so the rice is supposed to be motivation to sleep without moving.
l0vebombs 2 months ago
@xxLilly05xx
It makes you really thankful for hair spray, don?t it?
minsungomg 1 month ago 4
steve terada lol
toffzify 3 months ago 6
@AkashiyaMoka12365 i have no idea. maybe it flakes out or something. haha
Nildrohain54 3 months ago
This movie is brilliant the book is too.... Both are great works of art
QueenV2012 4 months ago
i love this movie i just wish it didnt have so many mistakes in it
xLunaNightMysteriesx 4 months ago
i looove mameha :D
Minyadagniriel 4 months ago
@iknowwhereyoulive006 "Look, when was the last time artistic integrity or respect for ethnicities mattered in a mainstream movie? " I think it always matters. My opinion is that people who approach a subject with integrity want to convey the genuine quality of that thing through the media, in this case film. I don't think that happened with this movie. They wanted to make some cash so they put the star from hidden dragon in there. It didn't pan out.
OctoSnuffaluffagus 4 months ago
@Mewchan028 it's melted hot wax. to keep their hairstyles in place. and hair + wax doesn't mix. so its painful.
Nildrohain54 4 months ago
@Nildrohain54
How do they wash it out? O.O
AkashiyaMoka12365 4 months ago
does any1 know what kind of liquid they put on her hair? at 3.11
Mewchan028 4 months ago
the only actual japanese- ken watanabe and steve terada
Jurmeytobgyevideos 4 months ago
steve terada-pervert haha
Jurmeytobgyevideos 4 months ago
Two of the funniest moments: When Chiyo/Sayuri was getting her hair done, & when she woke up with rice in her hair. :)
CherryBlossom6057 4 months ago
What was funny was they held auditions for japanese actresses and no one showed up lol
xShadowxPhoenix 4 months ago
aaaw! when she fell.
marieoxo 5 months ago
@iknowwhereyoulive006 @OctoSnuffaluffagus enterprise or not this movie did badly in the box office and 35% on rotten tomatoes, ouch. I guess those who make cheap decisions for $ deserve to fail. Sometimes it pays to have integrity and keep things authentic. As for Asians thinking it is ok to imitate eachother, check out why the 80's hit "Japanese boy" by Aneka was banned in Japan. Neither China nor Japan appreciate any ambiguity about their cultures.
OctoSnuffaluffagus 5 months ago
WOAH whats happening at 2:55? she's so creepy looking
sparkyblossom 5 months ago
This is my fave part of movie
MilanaLaryssa369 5 months ago
lmao that part about seeing a glance of the wrist cracks me up! i always think "honey that wouldnt fly over here with american boys...glance of a wrist? girl you please lol"
JL0vely 5 months ago 2
why is everyone referencing what's legal now if this is obviously set in a different time?
tyeb626 5 months ago
Not to be a killjoy but I still don't get why they chose to use chinese actors to depict a japanese tradition. Certainly there are many japanese actors who are the actually descend from the japanese culture that create geisha, and would have been much more suitable. Next lets send some american cooks to show the world how to prepare the most traditional chinese cuisine. overall the film was mediocre and i feel they really missed the mark by leaving the japanese out of the film about japan.
OctoSnuffaluffagus 5 months ago
@OctoSnuffaluffagus On a visit to Tokyo to promote the film, Zhang Ziyi received a mysterious parcel and letter, revealed to have been sent by an elderly Japanese woman who had once worked as a geisha. In her letter, the woman stated that she had been touched by the trailer of the film and expected the movie to bring back fond memories for her and her friends. Inside the parcel were several exquisitely worked antique kimono. Zhang Ziyi was moved to tears and wore it to the premier in japan.
caciquepadilla 5 months ago
I still want fans like the ones they are using. I can't find ones that stay open or that have the gap for the twirling. I found geisha makeup online but not those...any suggestions?
icekat83 5 months ago
Oh, wait,, someone PLEASE answer, what would you call what they are wearing at the dancing scene at 1:51?? im pretty sure that's not a kimono...right?
LatinCutie86 5 months ago
@LatinCutie86 They could be wearing yukatas, I'm not quite sure =/
It could also simply be like an undergarment before wearing the kimono.
SoshiHogosha4 5 months ago
@LatinCutie86 some kimonos especially intricate and complex ones have a sheer under robe worn underneath i can't quite remember what it's called, but you could look at some diagrams online that could tell you.
AikokoXD 5 months ago
hm...anyone know what that thing in the bottle next to the makeup was at like 0:04? :O
LatinCutie86 5 months ago
@LatinCutie86 probably sometye of thing you put on before the makeup
707rachel 5 months ago
@LatinCutie86 Probably perfume maybe?
timothysteddybear414 5 months ago
Lol at steve terada fallin!!
WherethisAllStarted 5 months ago
this scene is amazingly beautiful and breathtaking...But I specially love the moment between 1:49 and 2:35
AiRuStudio 6 months ago
This is one of my favorite parts of all de movie~ <3
Great vid
ElisaNefisto1416 6 months ago
People seem to be so black and white about the whole selling yourself for money. You need to filter your perceptions to cope with the practices of different cultures, especially when they're archaic practices. Mizuage happened, though it's now illegal, and just because people want to glamourise the geishas now doesn't mean that this aspect should be airbrushed from history because it makes them uncomfortable.
SilverShadows88 6 months ago 4
steve terada!!!!!!! from quest creew was the boy on the bike! ps love the book
amannders 6 months ago
I SO want that makeup box at the end! Anyone know what the actual name of it is called?
Siren274 6 months ago
i love mamehas voice its so sultry and calming at the same time.
uchihaitachi34 6 months ago 71
That part where she's drawing on her eyebrows always gives me the creeps. Can anyone else agree?
captainkabuki16 7 months ago 43
@captainkabuki16 Chola Eyebrows...XD
egogo816 1 month ago
i swear to god she had some MAC in that makeup box. .-.
LatinCutie86 7 months ago 6
It's too bad they couldn't have real maiko hairstyles
xShadowxPhoenix 7 months ago 4
@xShadowxPhoenix I know. The hair was all wrong. It really disappointed me.
CutieHoney001 7 months ago
@CutieHoney001 And the makeup, a maiko only paints the bottom lip when starting, and geisha/maiko don't wear blush. The whole book/movie was wrong
xShadowxPhoenix 7 months ago
@xShadowxPhoenix No, the book was pretty accurate. Remember, the author talked to Mineko Iwasaki and lived in Japan for a short while. It was the director, and the fact that the like only japanese actors in this movie were Suzka Ogho, and Ken Watanabe.
CutieHoney001 7 months ago
@CutieHoney001 Didn't you watch the interview that's on here though, she explained how he twisted her story around
xShadowxPhoenix 7 months ago
@xShadowxPhoenix Well yeah. I've seen the real Mineko Iwasaki story. The made for tv movie, and read the book, but he was very accurate in THIS book is what I'm meaning. Not to Minekos story, but to a geisha lifestyle.
CutieHoney001 7 months ago
23 people wish they could be great geisha's too
feona6118 7 months ago
@xshadowxphoenix- that's not all they made it out to be. The author actually did the research and talked to former geishas to get information from the book. Plus they were not prostitutes, they were entertainers. They only slept with buyers of their mizuagi and their dannas. If you lump them in with prostitutes, then you should also throw sugar babies and that girl that sold her virginity into that category. Most of those girls had no choice but to become a Geisha.
alexzjohnsonfan1988 7 months ago
Thumbs up 4 Steve Terada!
MeikoHime 7 months ago 3
The book is amazing!
AeblePie 7 months ago
omg zhang ziyi <3 she is soooo fucking beautiful *__*
stuknietastrzyga 7 months ago
I feel sorry for the boy, the bike and the chickens.
Hailstormand 7 months ago 4
@Hailstormand naw its steve terada he is probley use to it....but the chickens on the other hand....poor little chickens =(
4Chikana 7 months ago
last bit was mean lol
x2xWhaaax7x 8 months ago
I'm so jealous of her! She's so naturally beautiful!
EllenGT500 8 months ago
*scuttle scuttle scuttle FALL* :-)
lisa89 9 months ago
one of my favorite scenes in the movie, amzing soundtrack too
globetrekker360 9 months ago
great clip!!!<3<3
iceladyXD 9 months ago
All the book/movie did was make this into being a postitute/beauty contest
xShadowxPhoenix 9 months ago
lmao! i didn't even recognize steve xD
zomglawwlz 9 months ago
Weren't a geisha's feet broken or something to make them seem smaller?
jlopez412 9 months ago
@jlopez412 Thats foot binding. I thought that was only practiced in China.
Wildcat425B 9 months ago
@jlopez412 no geisha didnt do that, if im not mistaken only chinese culture used to practice that
yupitsme09 9 months ago
wooooow! That movie is SO incorrect it's unbelivable. So is the book. Good job screwing over Mineko Iwasaki, Golden!
KatjasHumanoid483 9 months ago
@KatjasHumanoid483 Totally, but they know the book/movie wouldn't sell unless there were sex in it, people are so pig headed lately
xShadowxPhoenix 9 months ago
I love this movie but the book is even better :)
The soundtrack and scenery in the movie are amazing!
OptimisticFlorence 9 months ago
I love John Williams' music here.
ivalice1980 9 months ago
@ivalice1980 i just love john williams jajaja
LostWanderer7 9 months ago
This the best part of the Movie!
KAWAIIdesu100 9 months ago
sexy...asian fetish :P
sw33tnl 9 months ago
@sw33tnl Geishas aren't for sexual pleasure
xShadowxPhoenix 9 months ago
@xShadowxPhoenix I never said they were for sexual pleasure, I just said they look sexy... :/
sw33tnl 9 months ago
I off my all time favourite movie's ..it was full off emotion
jessthark 10 months ago
my favorite part of the movie
theluckylol 10 months ago
too bad the the facts presented in this movie aren't historically accurate!! a geisha never sells her body, even for her debuting, that's a curtisan thing.
PurpleNymph 10 months ago
@PurpleNymph what do you mean?? geisha's often sold off their virginities to whoever bid highest. This is accurate...if you are talking nowadays, i guess not? i thought they did sometimes sleep with people etc
dendara100 10 months ago
@PurpleNymph geisha are not prostitutes, yes. but the tradition of mizuage was very much real. although i believe it is now not practiced.
TheArnabDas 10 months ago
@TheArnabDas duuuh, where are you getting your information you guys?-.- the prostituts sold their virginity and called it mizuage and the ceremony where a maiko turns into a geisha is called mizuage. it's the same word but not the same thing for a geisha. the virginity thing isn't practised nowadays. i guess film industry created a false image of geisha..
PurpleNymph 10 months ago
beautiful music, cinematography and acting. the movie however doesnt do justice to the novel (yea how many times have u heard that before! :D). the novel by arthur golden is a must read.
TheArnabDas 10 months ago
@TheArnabDas definitely a super read! hatsumomo, though she was bitch, was so damn beautiful...
dendara100 10 months ago
I'm not entierly sure if I'm correct, but doing things like bending their toes back and whatnot is now banned is it not? Can someone tell me? Thanks :)
TheWolfsCall 10 months ago
@TheWolfsCall Are you talking about foot binding? If so then I believe that was actually a Chinese practice and is no longer permitted.
MethodForDisaster 10 months ago
@TheWolfsCall
That was Chinese, It was thought that no man would marry a girl with normal sized feet, so women had to bind their feet in order to secure their futures.
It is banned now. there aren't many women still alive with bound feet.
rosydonut 10 months ago
the boy on the bike is Steve from Quest Crew :DD
watsupmynoodle 10 months ago 5
Geisha's are so fascinating :)
mickeykayla13 11 months ago
At the end , with one look ....... MANGEKYOU sharingan !!!
Presian94 11 months ago 108
@Presian94
Damn right! Dun mess with Geishas!
xAnimeNIACZx 7 months ago
I loved the cinematography especially the part where Chiyo was running under the temple gate
erinpilla 11 months ago
Wrist flash! It's getting hot in here!
jeyzi 11 months ago 7
the cinematography and music are just second to none
booyah129 11 months ago
Question: Is the woman that played Mameyha part asian? Because of her hair, her hair is not poker straight, it has curve, and her face is a little more pronounced than chiyo's. I am very bad at asian culture so if anyone knows....?
snakedemon11 11 months ago
@snakedemon11 Michelle Yeoh (who plays Mameha) is chinese/malaysian.
chiversorange 11 months ago
@chiversorange doesn't make a difference. Malaysian is just a nationality. Anyway most of the chinese in Malaysia have more pronounced features.
dogsbone07 11 months ago
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@dogsbone07 True, thanks for mentioning ^_^
chiversorange 9 months ago
am reading the book now and i havent finished but i couldnt wait to see the moive lol
Thelastnight28 11 months ago
steve terada was on the bike
ShiTyvely 11 months ago
Y a pas à dire, c'est aussi beau que le livre!
Mais elle ne prenait pas son bain avec Mameha!
Slytherinsoulmabelak 11 months ago
Y a pas à dire, c'est aussi beau que le livre!
Slytherinsoulmabelak 11 months ago
this movie makes me want to wear a silk kimono...so freaking bad....
autumnpixiedust 11 months ago
4:50 the kid on the bike that crashed was steve terada
Sivrin 11 months ago
"You are ready!" My favorite line of that transformation sequence. Beautiful film.
CalebAlucardtheHagan 11 months ago
Not exactly geisha makeup.
mimeglen 1 year ago
i know this got poor reviews and it was kind of cheesy at times, but this was breathtaking in the theaters. very enjoyable girl film =)
phantomwaltz 1 year ago 2
read "Geisha, A Life" by Mrs.Iwasaki, model of Memoirs of a Geisha. She sued Arthur Golden,auther of Memoirs of a Geisha, in defamation, because many scandal thing like violence and the virgin rapes are all the tissue of lies.
amerimashiro 1 year ago
Although, the movie has done well in summarizing 100pages into 5 min clip. Yet, both book and movie was not all correct in explaining the trandition of Geisha. Chiyo should be a Maiko (Geisha trainee).
Miracelus 1 year ago
@Miracelus in the movie, chiyo said that she is a maiko (she said that soon after she got her geisha name, but i can see how a lot of people would miss that since it was a very subtle and quick moment)
SkateLover151 10 months ago
I watched this entire clip just to see Steve Terada crash off his bike...
utra1337 1 year ago 163
Why are both her lips painted? The style was to just have the lower colored, and if the top, only a little. She look's very pretty anyway :)
Calypso427 1 year ago
BEST MOVIE EVER
dedsinger123 1 year ago
My favourite scene out of the movie... :D I loved that film so much that I even bought myself a copy of the book.
Relicangel 1 year ago
While the woman who plays Chiyo is beautiful, I wish they had cast a Japanese woman for the role. Being about Japan culture and all.
natygoly 1 year ago 2
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I know that most of Japanese school girls learn prostitution since junior high school. 14 y.o. schoolgirls in japan go on enjou kosai dates with old men.
And japanese women prostitute themselves for a gucci handbag or plastic surgery.
100808jojggassi 1 year ago
@100808jojggassi ???
Sesshychicklet7 1 year ago
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Geishas are just well trained prostitutes.
100808jojggassi 1 year ago
hmmm...most of the actresses that plays the Geishas are not even Japanese...no wonder these caused quite a stir
helmsdeep84 1 year ago 4
steve terada at 4:50
gogogoooooooooo 1 year ago
what exactly what are they doing to Chiyo's hair at 3:17? i never knew, but it looks pretty painfu by the look on her face!
xblacktearxheartache 1 year ago 2
@xblacktearxheartache They're brushing her hair, in that time it was inappropriate for a geisha to have (that white "snow" in your hair, couldnt find the right word) that is why their skin on their head needed to be "brushed" roughly because otherwise they would get that "snow"
sorry for any misunderstandings, I couldnt find the word for the "snow" in english, so I hope that you understand what I am trying to say ;)
AnoukTutorials 1 year ago
@xblacktearxheartache They heat up wax and comb it though the hair. This keeps it in place, but it it very painful to comb through the hair when it is this hot and it especially hurts to comb through as it starts to harden.
BlueMoonDarling 1 year ago
@BlueMoonDarling Ah, I was wondering why the look on Chiyos face was so painful, I first thought it had simply never been brushed before, but natral straight heir doesn't go up into knots like curly hair...If I didn't brush my hair for a month, I could go for the dreadlocks style.
lexykon94 1 year ago
Sayuri is incredibly beautiful with her hair let down. Asian women are so beautiful!
2beautiful2care 1 year ago 3
People should really just calm down. It's just a movie. Since when are movies accurate? Jesus. And those who think everything in movies are accurate are complete idiots, I'm sorry to say.
DarkestPanik 1 year ago 6
@DarkestPanik
So true, especially considering that the geisha that was used as "background" for this film's book sued the author for defamation. ;)
RedFlower26 1 year ago
this movie captures the shear beauty of the japanese culture, thats why i love it so much.
Fuyumi098 1 year ago
i love this movie
wonderwg 1 year ago
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Geishas are simply well trained prostitutes.
100808jojggassi 1 year ago
@100808jojggassi it is not true!
diejner 1 year ago
@100808jojggassi thats not true, the whole selling their virginity thing is a rite of passage from maiko to a full geisha. that is the way of a traditional geisha. perhaps ur thinking of the so called 'geishas' that (as said in the movie) put on a kimono and powder their faces and call themselves geisha.
Fanpire16 1 year ago
the kimonos were easy access for intercourse, doggystyle yellow butt cheeks
KENDALLSTRONG 1 year ago
This movie is so wrong. Memoirs of a Geisha showes a misunderstanding with the mizuage-business. Stupid american guy who made the movie.
Oiran and tayu (geisha-looking prostitutes) goes through mizuage as selling their virginity to a high bidder.This is a common misunderstanding since the tayus looks like geishas. in the movie they get selled to a geisha house. those girls who got sold ended up in the pleasure disctricts, nowhere else.
kattmat 1 year ago
@kattmat As far as I know (and as I read) the ritual of Mizuage really existed. Nowadays it is replaced just by a special ceremony, because the initial ritual was too humiliating for a woman.
voxlibertatis 11 months ago
When i watch this i wish i was a geisha,,, without the whoring around :P
<3
soccer7539518246 1 year ago
@soccer7539518246
Real Geisha's don't 'whore' around, they sold their virginity back in the day, but present day Geisha do not, nor do they sell themselves to men as Danna anymore, at least having a Danna is a very rare occurrence. The book isn't accurate to present day Geisha, and the movie is even further off. I did some research after I read the book. xD They are simply artists now.
AlyssaIvanova 1 year ago
@AlyssaIvanova true enough, but its probs not the same now :/
its probs just awks now hahah <3
love this fucking move XD
soccer7539518246 1 year ago
the clothing, music and actors were great in this film. It's just so disappointing that the plot and storyboard wasn't as wonderful. sorry to say, but the book was better.
MishyLish 1 year ago
...it was because even the great "gladiator" wasn´t played by an italien man...i think all the actors did a great job :->
Zsukki 1 year ago
zhang zihi for example is a chinese girl. i don´t know why they decided to take some chinese people to play these japanese parts, maybe because these people are very popular in the western world at the moment? even i can see the difference between japanese and chinese people (and i am a german, and i know many people say, they all look the same, but it´s not true. if you really look at the people you can say if they are from italy, russia, holland,...) but it don´t cares me in this film, maybe
Zsukki 1 year ago
@Zsukki i have to say i have seen a few Japanese actors and they dont even near the skill in acting as zhang who may i point was nominated best actress for this film
SarahRosalind 1 year ago
correct me if i'm wrong but i think alot of these actors are chinese aren't they? specially chiyo cuz i think i saw her in a kung fu movie
jaeser2 1 year ago
@jaeser2 yes they are all chinese
JrockIsTehSmex 1 year ago
@jaeser2 yes the all the geisha women are Chinese except pumpkin and their mother, but the men are Japanese, I thought it was weird too, but it seems that they couldn't find a Japanese girl good enough to play Sayuri ...
zwiniful 1 year ago
at 2:22 does anyone know how to do that hairstyle? do you know of a video on how to do this? what is it called? please i would like to know.
Ashienoelle 1 year ago
Leave it to the Japanese who treasure beauty more so than many other cultures, to make Geishas, a beautiful moving art.
miTsUmi101 1 year ago
i am curious to know what the thing with the rice was while she was sleeping
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this is soo beautiful
DumDum0022 1 year ago
@DumDum0022 I read in the book that since it takes a lot of time and effort to do a Geisha's hair, you must practice to sleep without damaging the hair do. They put the rice there so when you fail to sleep correctly, you have to redo the hair all over again...it's kind of like mentally training yourself! :)
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Btw, the book is amazing and the movie is beautiful!
lilalou2 1 year ago
I have played those mental games with the people :D, and I have stopped someone many times hahahahaha
ed021493 1 year ago
Mameha`s definition of geisha was so well defined and beautiful. it was like she took the words right out of my mouth.
jessandgaara 1 year ago
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This movie is shit.
enigma19890827 1 year ago
Great movie,beautifully shot,unbelieveable colors and scenery.
Sharone326 1 year ago 68
@Sharone326 that's what i thought too when i first saw it
SweetLolita8 10 months ago