“Memoirs of a Geisha” quotes
(2005)
Rob Marshall
directed this movie
in 2005
Title Memoirs of a Geisha
Year 2005
Director Rob Marshall
Genre Drama, Romance
Year 2005
Director Rob Marshall
Genre Drama, Romance
Plot – This story is set in a mysterious and exotic world and begins before World War II blows up. A Japanese child is torn from a family without means and is raised in a geisha house. Despite the harassments of her bitter rival, the girl blossoms and becomes the legendary geisha Sayuri. She's beautiful and talented and she can seduce the most powerful men of her time. Her heart however is secretly beating for the only man she can't have.
All actors – Suzuka Ohgo, Togo Igawa, Mako, Samantha Futerman, Elizabeth Sung, Thomas Ikeda, Li Gong, Tsai Chin, Kaori Momoi, Zoe Weizenbaum, David Okihiro, Miyako Tachibana, Kotoko Kawamura, Karl Yune, Eugenia Yuan, Yôko Narahashi, Michelle Yeoh, Kenneth Tsang, Ken Watanabe, Navia Nguyen, Natsuo Tomita, Yûki Kudô, Ziyi Zhang, Fumi Akutagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Koji Toyoda, Rick Mali, Steve Terada, Laura Miro, Diane Mizota, Yasusuke Uike, Shûhei Mainoumi, Daisuke Dewaarashi, Kôji Yakusho, Ren Urano, Ace Yonamine, Anthony Begonia, Albert 'Sumo' Lee, Dino Rivera, Randall Duk Kim, Takayo Fischer, Asako Takasue, Clarissa Park, Nobu Matsuhisa, James Taku Leung, Chad Cleven, Richard J. Bell, Cameron Duncan, Faith Shin, Brannon Bates, Ted Levine, Paul Adelstein, Shizuko Hoshi, Michelle Aguilar Camaya, Janelle Dote, Kim Halzle, Ashia Meyers, Mitsuyo Miyazaki, Shiho Miyazawa, Minae Noji, Mami Saito, Shannon Abero, Kiyoko Ando, Miki Fujita, Chieko Hidaka, Wendy Lam, Kana Miyamoto, Brooke Miyasaki, Nao Nojima, Shelly Oto, Nikki Tuazon, Addie Yungmee, Cassidy Adams, Celena Ahn, Allison Chan, Deziree Del Rosario, Emilie Endow, Rosie Endow, Hannah Hwang, Emma Fusako Ishii, Amy Saki Kawakami, Stefani Lee, Teanna Lee, Melissa Morinishi, Michelle Obi, Kasey Okazaki, Jacqueline Osaki, Ayaka Oyama, Jade Refuerzo, Shi La Na, Stacy Suzuki, Miwa Tachibana, Jordan Tambara, Shaye Uyematsu, Etsuo Hongo, Tateo Takahashi, Masakazu Yoshizawa, Kazumi Aihara, Jennie Baek, Yuki Bird, Michael Chen, Maggie Hai-Uyen, Halla, James Huang, Eiji Inoue, Masa Kanome, Branden Weslee Kong, Aurelie Kyinn, Teddy Lau, Stacey Lee, Jon Liggett, Julia Ling, Jia Mae, Tohoru Masamune, Danton Mew, Ryan Moriarty, Tam Nguyen, Sophie Oda, Ricky Pak, Steffinnie Phrommany, Catherine Kim Poon, Austin Michael Scott, Cathy Shim, Aaron Takahashi, Ray Tom, Henry T. Yamada, Joseph Steven Yang
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“You have to savor life while you can.”
“You cannot call yourself a true geisha until you can stop a man in his tracks with a single look.”
“Sometimes the smartest remark is silence.”
“Stop crying, your face will run!”
Every once in a while, a man's "eel" likes to visit a woman's "cave".
“I want a life that is mine!”
“Three things matter in life: sumo, business, and war. Understand one, you know them all.”
“I changed from a girl facing nothing but emptiness, to someone with purpose. I saw that to be a geisha could be a stepping stone to something else; a place in his world.”
“Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”
“No man would bid so much for a thing he had already taken.”
“None of us find as much happiness in this life as we should.”
“What is sumo but a dance between giants? What is business but a dance between companies? I would like to know about every kind of dance.”
The very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art.
“Were we so different? She loved once. She hoped once. I could be her. I might be looking into my own future. Until the real future came falling from the air.”
You cannot say to the sun "More sun". Or to the rain "Less rain".
“I see now why you like sumo, you can never judge a man's power by his appearance alone.”
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