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Memoirs of a Geisha [Blu-ray]
Memoirs of a Geisha [Blu-ray]
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4.0 (336 reviews)
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5Memoirs of a Geisha
41%This film is as Geisha are intended: Beautiful
3Why blu-ray ?
4Excellent adaptation leaves wanting
5Geisha is brilliant in HD!
5Visualy spectacular and exceedingly well crafted
51%Who writes the blurbs!? --
5Great performances in superb setting
5Memoirs of a Geisha Review
4The greatest true story that never was.
32.5 stars out of 4
5Fantastic
4Just a plain good movie
5Wonderful movie!
5I Always Love This Movie
5Passionate reworking of the book
5Great But Dosen't Do The Book Any Justice
51%memoirs of a geisha blu-ray
5Great Movie
3not true to the book
4The colours are superb
41%Visually stunning
41%beautiful movie
41%Touching Story
21%oh so pretty...vacant
31%A Piece of Art, Not a Documentary
50%CHEAP & NOT A BOOTLEG, I'M THRILLED!
10%Huh?
41%"What do you think? A geisha is free to love?"
21%Very Disappointing
10%A Beautiful Piece of Art
40%Good flick
51%Memiors of a Geisha Widescreen Edition
51%Heart Wrenching, Triumphant
30%A beautiful film that fails to manifest any real inner beauty...
21%Good Cinderella story, but. . . .
41%Movie not as good as the book!
51%By Japanse dancer, martial arts practitioner
41%Moving Story.......
51%Oscar winning film in a beautiful Blu-ray release
41%the glass half full
31%Strange differences from the written novel
51%MEMOIRS
40%Good movie, but they should have used Japanese actors!
10%Memoirs of a Geisha DVD Review
51%Great movie ~ Great cast ~ Wonderful music
31%Memoirs of a Geisha
51%GLORIOUS MOVIE
41%Well done!
3Pretty, but...
51%I liked the damn thing! So there!
5Beautiful Images
51%haunting and beautiful
20%Another Hollywood Mishap
51%Great Movie
41%Congratulations...great production!
51%I love this movie!
51%Powerful and riveting
51%Great Escape
51%beautiful movie...
51%My Review Of Memoirs...
5Why is it more than one person always feels -
21%An Average Plot Benefited from a Superb Supporting Cast
31%So are you Chinese or Japanese?
10%lovely scenes awful story
51%Beautifully Inovative.
51%In teresting
40%good movie but...
10%Pro-Prostitution Propaganda
31%Cinderalla mixed with Great Expectations; Japan style
51%Memoirs
41%A feast for the eyes and ears, if not for the mind
3Ok
51%Surprisingly Good!
51%Beautiful movie of a lost era
21%Waste of Talent
21%Disappointingly shallow retelling of a great love story
31%If You Knew Sayuri, Like I Knew Sayuri...
51%hated the book - loved the film
4Beautiful but somehow incomplete
3The book was better
51%Memoirs
51%Excellent! but the end....
41%So good I cried
51%This is not a "Chick-Flick"
41%Wow
51%For once, a movie tells almost as much as the book.
41%We are invited into a a hidden and fragile world of traditional arts and culture where agony and beauty live side by side...
51%The Art of being a Woman
41%Memoirs of a Geisha
51%Give this movie a chance...
41%Beautiful and Interesting Film
21%Melodramatic cat fighting
41%Almost Geisha
51%One of the best movies
51%Extremely Beautiful and Exotic ... Scenery and Story
41%One Of The Best Films Of 2005!.
31%"Geisha" Suffers By Not Showing The Heart Of The Woman Beneath The Makeup
51%Beautiful film; wonderful performances
40%Beautiful ending to a flawed movie
30%Memoirs of a Geisha
51%Amazing
41%Beautiful Movie
51%Example of great film-making
51%A Good movie!
20%dorothy fields might have written: "lovely to look at, horrific to watch ..."
31%Too Hollywood and commercial
51%Not bad
31%Good film but...
41%Insight into a vanished culture
51%A glimpse into a hidden world...
41%My DVD was a surprise
51%Who taught love to find its happiness into the sacrifice?
41%True Love
11%Cultural insensitivity
30%pornography for western feminists
40%Very good...BUT
21%The Inauthenticity Drove Me Nuts - 2 1/2 stars
41%Visually STUNNING, but story was difficult to follow
41%Eternal Beauty.
51%Takes you to another world...
41%Good movie but the book is better
51%Chiyo-Sayuri: The poetic story of a Japanese girl
41%Breathtaking
51%Memoirs of a Geisha
51%I loved it. It was just a beautiful film that captured my imagination.
21%2 + 1/2 stars. Solid adaptation? Not quite.
41%Very good film, see it, you will not be disappointed
51%Insight into a Very Different Culture in a Very Different Time....
4A movie worth watching!
51%Geisha- a new way of thinking
30%More Info, Less Romance, Please
50%Beautiful, as all Asians films are.
41%Good movie, entertaining and intriguing.
30%The star is Beebe's photography.
41%Memoirs of a Geisha
30%Something's missing...
51%Beautiful
51%Awesome!
51%Stunning
41%A Refined Beauty That Is Its Own Reward
31%Lush cinematography and score, but lacks emotional heart
21%too pretty for its own good
31%Average in every sense of the word.
41%Sweet and sour
40%Nice glimpse into a Geisha's world, but the casting doesn't work and the screenplay lacks subtlety
51%Have a Kleenex Close By
51%A gorgeous, moving, must-see film
51%Beautiful and moving
4Enjoyable But Confused Western Memoirs of Eastern Cultural Stereotypes
50%Love Flows as a Samisen's Melody.
41%I love the whole Geisha look
51%Moving and captivating
51%A Fantastic Rendition Of Arthur Goldens Book
10%Sometimes the critics are right
10%Ummm...Did I watch the same movie?
41%beautiful, moving, and well-done
40%I loved Memoirs of a Geisha.
30%A very nice film with great visuals
41%my 2 cents
30%The end was too abrupt
3Can't compare to novel!!
41%Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous
31%Fans will not find the essence of Mr. Golden's novel in this finished product.
31%Disappointed...
40%American's view on geisha
20%Pass.....
50%Geisha as the Modern Day Heteira
40%"Jolie à en mourir" Sayuri Geisha
41%well made, but a bit long
41%Beautiful and emotional!
51%"Memoirs..." Is More Moving Than the Novel
20%My girlfriend made me watch this
51%Now I can see why it won the awards it did
31%A sumptuous, visual feast
50%Not so bad!!!
30%Sooo Very Long
5TOTALLY AWESOME !!!!!
30%No Hidden Dragons or Crouching Tigers Here . . .
30%Beautiful and uncompelling
41%great film yet somehow empty
51%Enthralling
10%startling... startlingly disappointing
30%Has it's place
2Recommendation: Read the book
21%Warning! Quintessential Chick Flick
31%Fairy Tale Geisha
50%Ranking it high
31%Lost in Translation
20%Not a memoir at all.
41%Memoirs of this Movie
51%dont let the critics deter you
30%Pretty, but that's all
41%Watch the movie first, then read the book.
40%Great Movie
20%Waterless...
51%Touchingly beautiful
31%Memoirs of a Geisha
41%Visually stunning
41%Really Four++ stars
41%(3,5 stars rounded up) Loses points for characterizations, poor continuity
51%Eye Candy
30%Never read the book...
51%Heartwarming
40%Fantastic movie, average dvd
30%3.5 stars, flawed movie, amazing visuals!
40%"Water Is Always In Such A Hurry" ~ Is Beauty Only Skin Deep?
30%If you read the book first, don't bother!
10%Beautiful Scenery other than that nada
41%Excellent!
31%A beautiful piece of "asian art", nonetheless
41%What it took Japan to survive after WW2.
51%Great Picture
41%Captures the mysterious sensuality of Japan
4Good movie bad character
50%I Don't Give a Damn about the Book
10%Another fine crippled product from Sony
41%Geisha-rella
40%Eyes the Color of Rain
50%Amazing.. Simply Stated
10%Short Review: Why "Memoirs of a Geisha" may not be so.
41%Visually Stunning
31%Hey, you can't always watch movies with big apes and battling dinosaurs
31%Interesting, at times dull.
20%Japanese "wid out" being Japanese
5WOW!
30%WHERE IS THE GEISHA ?
10%Dug the book, movie was a big letdown
51%Beautiful, Brilliant and One of the Best Performances I've Seen in Years!
51%Exquisite tale told boldly and beautifully
10%Japanese showgirls or Chinese geishas?
20%A Wonderful Scenery but awfully too long!
51%geisha is THAT good.
31%Book v. Movie
51%A Truely Beautiful Movie
51%Moving Art
41%Somewhat slow in parts but a beautiful insight into a vanishing culture!
3Beautiful, but lacking..
41%Is it Just Me
20%Memoirs of a Rental
51%Beautiful!
51%A Step Into A Secret World
10%Not nearly as good as the original
40%Straight from the book...
41%A beautiful film that loses it soul by Westernizing the tale too much
20%Movie just doesn't cut it
3"You will be trained to be a Geisha"
41%It is what it is - an enjoyable movie
51%Simply Beautiful
30%One of the hardest grades I had to give
41%Great Production Quality, Beautiful Film, Slightly empty storytelling
10%Nothing but glitz that plays to the mythifying of the East
21%If you want to enjoy the movie, don't read the book
10%What bad performance
11%Not just bad but offensive!
10%Dissapointed
51%Gochizo Sama - It was a Feast!
51%Great movie- worth watching
30%review of Memoris of a Geisha
41%Once upon a cherry blossom time...
51%Top Notch!
51%a wonderful movie like a poem
41%Memoirs of a Geisha
40%Beautiful movie but not much of a plot
51%Amazing Adaptation
51%Words cant describe how beautifull this picture is...One of 2005 best films!
41%4.5 stars if I could make it
41%A Visually and Musically Stunning Film
51%Beautiful movie @}->---
41%Japanese Cinderella
50%Zhang Ziyi nor any woman can't use her beauty to over power me, I'm a strong man
50%Loved it
40%Should have many extras
20%God did Marshal ACTUALLY read the book???!!!!
41%Technically and Artistically Amazing--Drama, though, Lackluster
51%Movie...Book....Both fantastic
31%Commendable Adaptation
50%It may not be perfect...
41%People, stop complaining.
10%2 1/4 Hours of My Life that I Won't be Getting Back
51%A Masterpiece Worth of the Louvre
51%WOW! I mean ...WOW! Did I say WOW?!
30%Read the book first, twice!
31%Geisha Wars!
31%Geisha's Empty World
31%The good, the bad and the ugly...
21%A Story From The Floating World Indeed
41%It's pretty good, but...
51%A beautiful film
31%Memoirs of a Geisha
41%This is actually pretty good.
51%Why the bad press?
51%WOW
41%As good as I expected
31%Good, but leaves much to be desired!
41%Did any of you actually READ the book before you saw the movie?
3Not As Good As The Novel
11%Awful movie that is visually fantastic....
51%Visually amazing, well-acted love fable
51%excellent..breathtaking!!!!
40%Pretty Pictures, but 2 Dimensional
21%As pale as a geisha's powdered face
51%Memoirs of a Geisha is beautiful, stunning, and lovely!
41%I SHALL DESTROY YOU!
51%Forbidden Love
41%Excellent adaptation, and an excellent movie.
40%Read between the lines.
30%What did you expect?
51%Great adaptation of Golden book
3Beautiful setting, storyline lacking
51%A Poignant Portrait
20%Disrespectful Film To The Japanese
51%Faithful Adaptation
5Quick review about this amazing movie, that'll touch hearts across time.
21%About an hour too long, and a story just too uninteresting
3Memoirs of a memoir
41%Visually stunning, slightly lacking in content
4A good movie with some hiccups
21%Old sake in a new bottle.
41%A hooker by any other name....
51%Cinderella -- Oriental Style
41%Deliberate and Beautiful
41%International Stars Finally Come To Hollywood.
41%Interesting Film
51%Beautifully made film
31%Soap Opera in Kyoto: Beautiful Kimono Cannot Hide Its Hollow Content
41%Entertaining and Evocative But Also Episodic and Sometimes Cursory Look at One Geisha's Life
40%SEE IT BEFORE JUDGE IT
41%Gong Li Steals the Show!
31%Cliffs Notes: Memoirs of a Geisha
50%Memorable Geisha
40%Show your... wrists! :)
41%Prisoner of Love
20%I LIKED THIS MOVIE BETTER THE FIRST TIME
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