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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Movie2005·146 min
Memoirs of a Geisha
Directed by Rob Marshall
An Academy Award-winning drama romance film directed by Rob Marshall. Winner of 3 Academy Awards, with 1 additional nomination.
◈ CrunchScore
Top 6%
of all movies · weighted by audience size & source agreement
★ TMDB Audience Rating
7.6/10
3K ratings
About Memoirs of a Geisha
- Pacing
- Measured (4 of 9)
- Tone
- Bittersweet (4 of 9)
- Intensity
- Moderate (4 of 9)
- Complexity
- Approachable (4 of 9)
- Humor
- Serious (1 of 9)
- Scale
- Personal (4 of 9)
- Spirit
- Earnest (5 of 9)
- Texture
- Stylized, Contemplative
- Story Tags
- forbidden love, sacrifice duty, early 1900s, wwii era, sex work, japan, mentor student, siblings, outsider misfit, underdog, rise and fall, nonlinear flashback, training arc, forbidden star crossed, sweeping romance