TY - ADVS AU - Marshall,Rob AU - Swicord,Robin AU - Zhang,Ziyi AU - Ohgo,Suzuka AU - Yeoh,Michelle AU - Watanabe,Ken AU - Igawa,Togo AU - Golden,Arthur ED - Columbia Pictures. ED - Dreamworks Pictures. ED - Spyglass Entertainment (Firm) ED - Amblin Entertainment (Firm) ED - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm) TI - Memoirs of a geisha SN - 1404983082 PY - 2006/// CY - Culver City, CA PB - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment KW - Geishas KW - Japan KW - Kyoto KW - Drama KW - Feature films KW - Historical films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - gsafd N1 - Based on the novel by Arthur Golden; Originally released as a motion picture in 2005; Special features not rated; Special features include: 11 behind the scenes featurettes; commentaries by director Rob Marshall and co-producer John DeLuca; production audio commentary; Director of photography, Dion Beebe ; art directors, Patrick M. Sullivan, Jr., Tomas Voth ; editor, Pietro Scalia ; original music score, John Williams ; costume designer, Colleen Atwood ; production designer, John Myhre; Ziyi Zhang, Suzuka Ohgo, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe, Togo Igawa, Mako, Samantha Futerman, Elizabeth Sung, Thomas Ikeda, Li Gong, Tsai Chin; MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature subject matter and some sexual content N2 - In 1929, an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society ER -