A Geisha Is Born – Chiyo Becomes Sayuri | Memoirs of a Geisha (Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li)
Once an orphaned servant, Chiyo (Zhang Ziyi) emerges into Kyoto society reborn as Sayuri—the refined, mysterious geisha destined to capture attention and admiration. In this pivotal scene, her debut marks more than success—it’s the beginning of a lifelong performance. In Memoirs of a Geisha, beauty is power, and reinvention comes at a price.
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🎬 Memoirs of a Geisha (2005): In 1920s Japan, 9-year-old Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo) is sold into a geisha house, where she enters a world of rigid discipline and servitude, her fate hanging on whether she can meet the exacting standards of the elite geisha hierarchy. Stripped of her childhood and forced to serve without reward, she endures years of intense training. Eventually, Chiyo transforms into Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang), a geisha renowned for her beauty, grace, and allure. Just as she rises to the height of her influence, the calm of her world is shattered by the looming storm of World War II.
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28 Comments
Wrong hairstyle lol
I can totally understand why the Japanese hate this movie, but you can't deny that Zhng Ziyi's beauty is not of this earth. And Gong Li is a true goddess on screen, too.
love this movie but the cosmetics team was chopped lol
Beautiful movie and great book too
For those who may not get it: they are combing melted hot wax into her hair which is very painful to hold the style and the rice grains was to teach her to not move from that wooden neck pillow otherwise the rice grains will stick into the wax and they will have to redo her hair
Great movie but the book was so much better!
Gong Li perfectly cast.
How come PUMPKIN DIDNT GET A NEW NAME
IT A MOVIE NOT A DOCUMENTARY
One thing I don’t understand is why they didn’t go fully traditional with the makeup, it’s much more beautiful anyway. They just looked washed out and sickly with the toned down pale white. They’re out of geisha makeup for a lot of scenes anyway if they wanted to make them more individual, I think people would’ve been more forgiving towards the kimonos and some of the hair if they at least went all out on the makeup.
Alright.
Historically accurate? Barely.
A real person? Author interviewed a real Geisha from the time promising he'd protect her identity and then didn't. WTF is wrong with you, dude?
Are the scenes stylized for a Western audience? Absolutely.
Still a beautiful movie. Gorgeously shot and brilliantly acted. I can never hate it.
Also a dick move to pick a boy on a bike for the "one look" test. Just mean lol
The costumes are immaculate
Report for identity thetf through procedures of my own person.
chiyo / sayuri gets her unique blue irises from japan's indigenous ainu people who were of white origin , her eyes set her apart leading to her being chosen to become a geisha !
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeebs
2 chinese geishas.
the backlash the movie got it’s forgiven to me when you see the how beautifully it was shot and casted, Ziyi Zhang is breathtaking, Gong Li it’s just pure beauty, Michelle Yeoh is an ageless beauty, it’s just too iconic of a movie
Browse are the wrong shape, and the make up is Westernised. There was so much disrespect for Japanese culture in both the book and movie
I wonder if stuff like that happens in the streets often when geisha are training. They must be a menace to society.
日本人から見たら中国人にしか見えないんですよ。嘘の日本を描くくらいならなぜ中国の話にしなかったのか？ “将軍”とのレベルの違い！
映画としてはとても良いのですが、 メイクとヘアスタイルが日本のものと違う。
read the book … the movie did quite a good job staying faithful to the text, but 100% half of it is missing without Sayuri's narrativ3
Wonderful film
I cannot get over how absolutely majestic these women are 😮💨
This was a good movie
I loved this movie but they dropped the ball on hair and makeup. Probably to appeal to a more western audience, but we're not dumb! Its OK to show ACTUAL culturally appropriate things! The audience KNOWS it is set in JAPAN!!
Underrated movie.
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