Memoirs Of A Geisha

Synopsis

A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house.