Memoirs of a Geisha

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Memoirs of a Geisha

2005 | Rob Marshall

In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named “Chiyo” from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in kyoto’s gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head Geisha Hatsumomo.

Based on the novel by Arthur Golden, so most of the story was fictional. In the very beginning, you would hear people talking and whispering in Japanese with no subtitle at all. Then when young “Chiyo” was brought to her new house in Kyoto. She magically knew how to speak English! Through out the movie, audience should prepare themselves to listen to strange English accent. That was no problem with me, but it was kinda annoying when every character spoke English and Japanese at the same time, shouldn’t they stick to one language when they were talking? You would hear something like ‘O-ga-san’, ‘Arigato’, ‘O-ne-san’ and so on along with English sentences.

The plot was totally a fiction and nothing like the true story. “Chiyo” miraculously became the highest-priced geisha ever within a matter of months with the training by “Mameha” the legendary Geisha.

However I did enjoy the first part of young “Chiyo” played by 大後寿々花 (Suzuka Ohgo), she was brilliant! I believe she could be a great star of tomorrow.

Gong Li’s performance in the role of “Hatsumomo” was stunning. She nailed it every time she appeared on the screen, everybody else just faded into the background even “Zhang Ziyi”.

Lastly, if you’re interested in true story of Geisha, I’d suggest you go get a book called “Geisha, A Life” which was written by real Geisha 岩崎峰子 (Mineko Iwasaki) who inspired Arthur Golden, the author of Memoirs of Geisha. The book is available in Thai and English. The original Japanese title is 祇園の教訓―昇る人、昇りきらずに終わる人.

I really hope that Japanese movie studio would pick the book “Geisha, A Life” and make it to big screen in original Japanese dialogue someday.

9 comments

udomdog 2006.01.27 at 13:28

ตอนไปดูยิ่งง่วงๆ ด้วยเนี่ย … ยิ่งชวนหลับนะ …
ถ้าหยิบหนังสือ “บันทึกลับเกอิชา” มาทำเป็นหนังเราคิดว่าน่าจะน่าสนใจมากกว่านี้[cool]
คนพเนจร 2006.01.27 at 14:40

เขาอาจพยายามสือ ว่าคนต่างชาติพูดอังกฤษ แล้วแทรก คำยี่ปุ่น ลงไปอ๊ะเปล่า
ต้องไปพิสูจน์เองซะแล้ว
น่าจะเรทมากกว่า พีจีสิบสามนะ จะได้ชื่นใจ ดูไปตาสว่างไป เนอะป๋าดมเนอะ
oakyman 2006.01.27 at 14:46

ชอบสึสึกะจังมากเลย
pradt 2006.01.27 at 14:53

สึสึกะจัง น่ารักที่สุดในเรื่องแล้วครับ
Sunny 2006.01.27 at 15:44

So, a book that inspired a book which inspired a movie is better than the movie.
pradt 2006.01.27 at 18:07

it’s not a book that inspired the book. in fact “memoirs of a geisha” by arthur golden was supposed to be iwasaki mineko’s geisha life story. but arthur golden wrote it as a fiction which he made something up based on a story told by mineko. after “memoirs of geisha” was published, mineko felt that golden’s way of telling the story was twisted and people could get wrong impression of a geisha. so she started to write her own story and published as well. if you read her book, you’d be amazed by all the details she carefully put in.
golf 2006.01.27 at 20:34

zhang ziyi น่ารักที่สุดในโลก [tongue][itongue][razz]
Sunny 2006.01.30 at 9:02

So, I should say that a book that defied a book which inspired a movie is the best.
ทำไมแพงจัง 2006.02.08 at 19:08

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Memoirs of a Geisha