Memoirs of a Geisha
Movie • 2005 • History
ReportA sweeping romantic epic set in Japan 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.
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A father sells his two young girls to an okasa for money, they do not see the parents again
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There's lying and manipulation, but nothing that would meet the definition of gaslighting.
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In the beginning the dad sold his two children.
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Some children are used as domestics. Chiyo is canned with a bamboo stick.
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Since the okiya is the gueishas house, they are abuse there verbally and with slaps/beaten up
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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Chyio is abused by the okasan when she is little, but when she is a gueisha she accepts to be adopted by the okasan
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Hatsumomo and her friend get very drunk one night. Pumpkin, as an adult, is shown to drink a lot of alcohol.
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The cages fall and break, chicken are startled. No visible harm.
The cages fall and break, chicken are startled. No visible harm.
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Is someone restrained?
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There are some scenes where a child or adult woman is being held still because otherwise they might shout, defend themselves or run away
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Is there pedophilia?
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Children are sold to a geisha house and a wh*re house, there is not explicit images or even conversations about this but the audience knows what it means.
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A woman slaps another when it is found out that she had sex with a man
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The main character is sexually assaulted by being stripped of her clothes, but no rape takes place.
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Sayuri, when still being a maiko, is sexually assaulted by the Baron at his cherry blossom party
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The main character is made to cut her leg with a razor.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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A character falls off a roof.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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A young girl does fall off a roof but she does not die
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Two girls, age 9 and another who is a young teen, are sold by their parents and forcibly taken away, but they're not infants
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Gueishas are not prostitutes!
But Chyio sister is sold to a prostitution house.
But Chyio sister is sold to a prostitution house.
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Death
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Does someone die?
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Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Not a toy but there are keepsake items that Chiyo/Sayuri has into adulthood that Hatsumomo finds and tries to destroy
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Does a parent die?
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Mother dies at the beginning, Father dies partway through
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Does someone cheat?
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It’s implied that Mameha’s baron is married but keeps a relationship with Mameha
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Is there a shower scene?
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Not technically a shower but a public bath.
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Many things and places during the war
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A doctor makes a home visit in one scene
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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A woman draws a line on Sayuri's leg and tells her to use a knife on the line. It happens.
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There is mention of a person committing suicide after the war.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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You can very briefly hear a baby crying in a crowd but it lasts less than a second. It's in the scene where they're preparing to flee the city because of the war
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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During Sayuri dance performance there are flashing lights. As someone who suffers with this type of thing, I always close my eyes in this scene.
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Paranoia
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A narrator addresses the audience, but the characters shown on screen don't
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Pregnancy
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It's mentioned/very strongly implied that one of the characters can't attend an event because she's going to have one, but it's not explicitly stated, or seen.
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Is there hate speech?
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You can hear in a scene someone listen to the radio and the speaker talking about “our brother H*t*e*” and the war.
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When Chiyo (Sayuri) first meets the Chairman Chiyo is 9/10 yo, the Chairman has children of his own whom are old enough to be taken to the spring festival and tell him whether or not they like certain flavors on their ice, this would make the Chairman at least 20 years older than Chiyo (it is rumoured that he is 36 years older).
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Are there nude scenes?
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There are some women in a bathhouse with towels around their waists, sitting down and you see their bare backs but that’s it. There are people in a hot tub and you see bare shoulders but again nothing more. No graphic nudity and no sexual nudity shown.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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This is a large plot point
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Is there sexual content?
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A man and woman are seen by a child mid sex but there is no nudity, he’s brief and not graphic. A woman is assaulted when a man rips her clothes off to look at her but again no nudity shown. A large part of the story is auctioning off a young woman’s virginity. A young woman loses her virginity to the highest bidder but nothing is shown. A woman begins to kiss a man and it is implied they may have sec but they are interrupted.
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Social
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Chyo/Sayuri talks many times about the meaning of life.
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Is someone homeless?
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Hatsumomo becomes homeless after burning down the okiya, but it's not explicitly shown. Implications of homelessness after the war.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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kaiaaa
Sad things do happen towards the end of the film but the ending is supposed to be happy. I think overall this film would be melancholic.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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There is a couple of scenes with an old kind of car horn can be heard.
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Does a car crash?
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Not a car, but there is a bike crash scene.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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There's passing mention to the bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (something like 'cities turned to dust') but it's not shown.
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Is there blood/gore?
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kaiaaa
1:09:55 minor amount of blood underneath a bandage, 2:01:40 some blood as his palm is wounded by glass
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Does someone drown?
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It is said in passing that the Baron committed suicide by drowning.
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