Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 123movies

Watch: Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 123movies, Full Movie Online – In the 1920s, 9-year-old Chiyo gets sold to a geisha house. There, she is forced into servitude, receiving nothing in return until the house’s ruling hierarchy determines if she is of high enough quality to service the clientele — men who visit and pay for conversation, dance and song. After rigorous years of training, Chiyo becomes Sayuri, a geisha of incredible beauty and influence. Life is good for Sayuri, but World War II is about to disrupt the peace..
Plot: A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
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Ratings:

	7.3/10 Votes: 150,741
	35% | RottenTomatoes
	54/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 2551 Popularity: 20.933 | TMDB

Reviews:

Beautiful Romance
In Japan of the 20’s, the nine years old Chyio (Suzuka Ohgo) and her sister Satsu (Samantha Futerman) are sold by her fisherman father to a Geisha house in Miyako. Satsu is not accepted in the house and is sent to a brothel, and along the years, Satsu escapes from he brothel where she lived and the rebel Chyio is left alone, becoming a slave of a geisha. However, six years later, she learns how to become the geisha Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang) with the support of the successful Mameha (Michelle Yeoh), while fighting against the evil and jealousy of the wicked Hatsumomo (Gong Li). While still a child, Chyio falls in love with The Chairman (Ken Watanabe), and in the post-WWII, they meet each other, in a period o changes in Japan with the occupying American forces and the country completely destroyed.

The first half of “Memoirs of a Geisha” is a beautiful drama, telling the story of the country girl Chyio alone and adapting to a new life style in a house of geisha. Then, in the end of World War II, the screenplay becomes a soap-opera and the story becomes lesser and lesser attractive. However, the cinematography, the art direction and the costume design are amazing along the whole movie. But the cast speaking in English and keeping some Japanese words seems quite ridiculous for me. For such a careful production, this seems to be an unforgivable mistake. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): “Memórias de uma Gueixa” (“Memoirs of a Geisha”)

A Visually and Musically Stunning Film
Why there is so much polarity with the audiences of Rob Marshall’s cinematic adaptation of Arthur Golden’s exquisite novel MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA is puzzling. Even in the theater there were those who left halfway through – reason unknown. Despite disagreements on the casting techniques and on the emphasis changes between the book and the film, MEMOIRS remains one of the most visually arresting, genteel films of the year. That it comes across as somewhat of an epic soap opera is no one’s fault but the writers. And what is so wrong with an old-fashioned soap opera of a story afterall? The opening scene of the turbulent sea and heavy rain that accompany the silent selling of two poor sisters to a merchant planning to place the girls in houses in Osaka gives an indication of the importance of water in this story. The sisters are delivered to a house of geishas and only one is selected by the hard madam. Through years of suffering and anguish the chosen one becomes a geisha, finds comfort from her childhood of poverty, gains loving mentoring by a top geisha, becomes the most sought after geisha in Osaka, finds her love, endures WW II and eventually returns to her dreams. The interplay between the girl and the various members of the geisha training and bartering complex add flavor and conflict that keep the story flowing.

The three principal actresses – Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh, and Gong Li carry the film well. The large cast includes favorite actors Ken Watanabe and Mako. The settings are splendid, the special effects such as the cherry blossoms, the autumnal reunion of Zhang and Watanabe, Zhang’s spellbinding dance – all are brilliant. John Williams’ musical score blends the best of Japanese folk music with contemporary writing and is greatly abetted by the talent of Yo-Yo Ma and Itzak Perlman.

Part of the brilliance of Golden’s novel was the meticulous explanation of the myriad details of geisha training and demeanor and makeup and tradition, and while the film version touches on these, the bulk of them are passed over. For this viewer there is a problem with understanding the dialogue due to the enunciation by the actors and the covering of much of the dialogue with ambient music. But that is a minor complaint. In all, MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA is an enormously beautiful and affecting film, one that multiple viewings will no doubt enhance the viewers’ appreciation. Recommended. Grady Harp, February 06

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 25 min (145 min), 2 hr 20 min (140 min) (Philippines)
Budget 85000000
Revenue 162242962
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Rob Marshall
Writer Robin Swicord, Arthur Golden
Actors Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh
Country France, Japan, United States
Awards Won 3 Oscars. 32 wins & 47 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Gold II, Panavision C- and E-Series Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Millennium, Panavision C- and E-Series Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision C- and E-Series Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 4,004 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 500T 5218, Vision 200T 5274)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Panavision (anamorphic) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383)