The Village Voice, December 7th, 2005
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
Directed by Rob Marshall
Columbia, opens December 9
ORIENT EXCESS
Girls gone wild: Garish geisha in Marshall's disastrous pageant of dragon-lady catfights
In their great geisha dramas, Mikio Naruse and Kenji Mizoguchi bring an unblinking focus to the everyday realities of being a working woman: Naruse's Flowing (1956) is a crystalline portrayal of the okiya (geisha house) as a vanishing microcosm and a declining business. Arthur Gulden's 1997 Memoirs of a Geisha-an exhaustively researched novel masquerading as an insider's tell-all-emphasizes exotic ritual: laborious f...
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