For all of its mastered traits, the movie has one fatal flaw: it’s incredibly tedious to watch. That’s not to say that it’s difficult to keep your eyes on the screen. Quite the opposite, the ...

Minireview: "Memoirs of a Geisha" (Drama, PG-13, 137 minutes). Sex, tradition and exoticism are choreographed into a dance of strategy and desire, starring the great beauties Ziyi Zhang, ...

"Memoirs of a Geisha" -- directed by Rob Marshall, adapted from the novel by Arthur Golden -- will teach you many things about the artistry and discipline of the geisha, ...

The mysterious world opened up to readers by Arthur Golden's international best-seller has been moved to the bigscreen with beauty and tact in "Memoirs of a Geisha." The combo of the subject's ...

In adapting Arthur Golden’s bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha to the big screen, American director Rob Marshall (Chicago) steadfastly refuses to delve beyond the white face paint and find ...

“Memoirs of a Geisha” is an enchanting, yet somewhat disturbing, story of a 9-year-old girl, Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo), who develops into a highly desirable geisha.The story begins with stormy ...

Much like the painted human baubles it depicts, Rob Marshall’s “Memoirs of a Geisha” is elegant, artfully composed and drained of personality.That the film, starring Ziyi Zhang (“Hero ...

Now his work, "Memoirs of a Sansei Geisha: Snapshots of Cultural Resistance," is being featured in "Issho/Together," a show of more than 40 Japanese American and Japanese artists that runs through ...

from Film Forum, 01/12/06. Darrel Manson (Hollywood Jesus) says, “Leaving the theater after seeing Memoirs of a Geisha, I wasn’t quite sure what it was that left me unsatisfied.To be sure, it ...

Memoirs of a Geisha. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct ...

Arthur Golden’s 1997 novel “Memoirs of a Geisha” is an addictive read: an involving, almost Dickensian tale of a young woman’s rise from poverty in a fishing village to fame as a Kyoto ...