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- Memoirs of a geisha [videorecording] / by Tsai Chin,1936-actor.; Fisher, Lucy,film producer.(CARDINAL)547418; Golden, Arthur,1957-Memoirs of a geisha.; Gong, Li,1965-actor.; Kudoh, Youki,1971-actor.; Ma, Yo-Yo,1955-instrumentalist.(CARDINAL)340373; Marshall, Rob,film director.(CARDINAL)647949; Momoi, Kaori,actor.; Ohgo, Suzuka,1993-actor.; Spielberg, Steven,1946-film producer.(CARDINAL)148835; Swicord, Robin,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)739992; Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki,actor.; Watanabe, Ken,1959-actor.; Wick, Douglas,film producer.; Williams, John,1932-composer.(CARDINAL)346904; Yakusho, Kōji,actor.; Yeoh, Michelle,1963-actor.; Zhang, Ziyi,1979-actor.; Amblin Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)355000; Columbia Pictures.(CARDINAL)747663; DreamWorks Pictures (1994-2006)(CARDINAL)340063; Red Wagon Entertainment (Firm); Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)282399; Spyglass Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)784936;
Director of photography, Dion Beebe ; production designer, John Myhre ; editor, Pietro Scalia ; costume designer, Colleen Atwood ; music by John Williams ; cello solos by Yo-Yo Ma ; violin solos by Itzhak Perlman.Ziyi Zhang (Sayuri), Ken Watanabe (Chairman), Michelle Yeoh (Mameha), Koji Yakusho (Nobu), Youki Kudoh (Pumpkin), Kaori Momoi (Mother), Tsai Chin (Auntie), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (The Baron), Suzuka Ohgo (Chiyo), Gong Li (Hatsumomo).In 1929, a poor fisherman sells his 9-year-old daughter to a geisha house in Kyoto. Chiyo will be an unpaid servant until it is determined if she is beautiful enough for apprenticeship, and the house's clientèle. Run by Mother, the ruling geisha is Hatsumomo, and little Pumpkin her only friend. Trained under strict discipline for a lifetime of entertaining and flattering wealthy men, Sayuri grows up lovely, accomplished, and the target of jealous rivals. Love is no part of this cloistered world, although geisha lore hints that even if they fall in love with clients--the operative word is client, and that love is never free.MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature subject matter and some sexual content.DVD; Region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround; widescreen presentation aspect ratio 2.40:1.Academy Awards, 2006 Best Achievement in Art Direction-John Myhre (art director), Gretchen Rau (set decorator); Best Achievement in Cinematography-Dion Beebe; Best Achievement in Costume Design-Colleen Atwood; Golden Globes, 2006 Best original score-Motion Picture, John Williams.- Subjects: Drama.; Feature films.; Historical films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Geishas; Man-woman relationships; Social skills; Women; Young women;
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