Memoirs of a Geisha

In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village 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 of Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of 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...

As World War II looms Japan and the geisha's world are forever changed by the onslaught of history...

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In the years before World War II, a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a geisha house...

Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Sayuri...

Beautiful and accomplished, Sayuri captivates the most powerful men of her day, but is haunted by her secret love for the one man beyond her reach...

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