TY - ADVS AU - Marshall,Rob AU - Swicord,Robin AU - Zhang,Ziyi AU - Ohgo,Suzuka AU - Yeoh,Michelle AU - Watanabe,Ken AU - Igawa,Togo AU - Beebe,Dion AU - Williams,John AU - Golden,Arthur ED - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm) ED - Columbia Pictures corporation. ED - Dreamworks Pictures. ED - Spyglass Entertainment (Firm) ED - Amblin Entertainment (Firm) TI - Memoirs of a geisha U1 - 791.4372 PY - 2006/// CY - Culver City, CA PB - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment KW - Geishas KW - Japan KW - Kyoto KW - Drama KW - Social skills KW - Study and teaching KW - Mentoring KW - Women KW - Conduct of life N1 - Based on the book by Arthur Golden; Originally released as a motion picture in 2005; Director of photography, Dion Beebe ; art directors, Patrick M. Sullivan, Jr., Tomas Voth ; editor, Pietro Scalia ; music by, John Williams ; costume designer, Colleen Atwood ; production designer, John Myhre; Ziyi Zhang, Suzuka Ohgo, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe, Togo Igawa, Mako, Samantha Futerman, Elizabeth Sung, Thomas Ikeda, Li Gong, Tsai Chin N2 - In 1929, an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy in Hatsumomo and she is rescued by Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society. As a renowned geisha, she enters a society of wealth, privilege, and political intrigue ER -