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Memoirs of a Geisha is the sort of novel that novel-lovers yearn for, which is to say, so convincing that while reading it you become transported to another time, and other place, and feel you're listening and seeing with someone else's eats and eyes.' - Margaret Forster

Previously unavailable in hardback outside the USA, this remarkable novel has caught the imagination of millions of readers. It tells, as if in her own words, the extraordinary story of a geisha girl - a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale. Summoning up more than twenty-five years of Japan's dramatic history, the novel opens a window onto a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.

Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Watch memoirs of a geisha 2005 online, free on putlocker in high quality HD 1080p, HD 720p, Putlocker official site moved to putlocker9.es. Watch Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) full movie, online on 123Movies. Watch Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) online, free in HD On Gomovies. Watch HD Movies Online For Free and Download the latest movies. For everybody, everywhere, everydevice, and everything;) Remember me.

Chiyo is born a fisherman's daughter in a village on the Sea of Japan, where she might have lived a drab and uneventful life - but for her startling grey eyes. In 1929, at the age of nine, she is sold into a kind of slavery as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. In the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto she discovers an alien world. This is the world where Hatsumomo, petite and deadly, is principal geisha; where Auntie, who looks like a knobbly bamboo pole, is kind but ineffectual; and pipe-smoking Mother controls them all like a repulsive spider from the center of her web.

Chiyo learns to be careful in her words, her actions and her choice of friends. Through petty miseries, farcical moments, great pain and one man's act of kindness, she begins her transformation into Sayuri, one of the most sought-after geisha of the Gion district. Her good fortune is to be taken on as 'younger sister' and apprentice by a successful geisha who teaches her the arts of her profession -n not only dancing and singing, but how to drape the kimono, how to apply the elaborate make-up, how to walk and talk and pour tea, how to beguile the most powerful men. But then war breaks out and, to survive, Sayuri must transform herself once more. Finally she takes a calculated risk which could mean disgrace, or the realization of an impossible dream - the tenuous hope that has kept her spirit intact and aloof, even from drunken patrons and the auction of her much-prized virginity.

Many years later, Sayuri tells her own story from the Walforf Astoria in New York, her tone controlled and ambivalent, funny and poignant, as she recaptures the exquisite scenes, behind the rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the age-old art of the geisha.

Arthur Golden's remarkably poised and beautifully written first novel brings this strange, exotic existence to the page as never before. Memoir of the Geisha grips the reader from the very first and leaves the unforgettable imprint of one woman's life at another time and in another place.

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'... a visually stunning adaptation of Arthur Golden's best-selling novel.' (Barry Caine, Oakland Tribune) The director of Chicago, Rob Marshall, transports us into a mysterious and exotic world that casts a potent spell. A Cinderella story like no other, Memoirs of a Geisha stars Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh and Gong Li. 'Gorgeously photographed, meticulously directed and hypnotically acted. Memoirs of a Geisha is luxurious, ethereal and intoxicating. It will leave you breathless.' (Rex Reed, New York Observer)

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'... a visually stunning adaptation of Arthur Golden's best-selling novel.' (Barry Caine, Oakland Tribune) The director of Chicago, Rob Marshall, transports us into a mysterious and exotic world that casts a potent spell. A Cinderella story like no other, Memoirs of a Geisha stars Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh and Gong Li. 'Gorgeously photographed, meticulously directed and hypnotically acted. Memoirs of a Geisha is luxurious, ethereal and intoxicating. It will leave you breathless.' (Rex Reed, New York Observer)

• • Rent $3.99
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Ratings and Reviews

Critics Consensus:Less nuanced than its source material, Memoirs of a Geisha may be a lavish production, but it still carries the simplistic air of a soap opera.

Gorgeous, but slow-moving and not meant for kids.

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