Content:ĭominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements: Thus, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution. Also, although the geisha does not sell her body to many men like a common prostitution, there are elements of prostitution in being a geisha. The movie deals directly, but discreetly, with the sexual themes of being a geisha. MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA is beautifully photographed, designed and acted. Circumstances almost destroy this small chance of happiness in an often cruel, uncaring world. She does this even though she knows that she can only be, as she puts it, half a wife to the Chairman. At first Chiyo wants to escape, but a chance encounter with the kindly Chairman of the local power company makes Chiyo decide to go all out as a geisha to attract the Chairman as her sole male patron. Separated from her sister and family forever, 9-year-old Chiyo is groomed to become a top geisha. The movie opens in 1929 in Japan, where a poor fisherman whose wife is dying sells his two daughters to a geisha house in Kyoto. MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA is a beautifully produced movie that is at times heartbreaking, romantic and very moving, but it deals with difficult subject matter requiring much caution.
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