
06 Dec 2005

Memoirs of a Geisha
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.
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.
Kimiko Yamamoto
Oyuki
Etsuko Yamamoto
Shizuko (Oyuki's daughter)
Shunsaku Yamamoto
Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
Kenichi (Oyuki's son)
Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)
Shingo's wife
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