A correction was made to this article on Jan. 10, 2006. “Memoirs of a Geisha” was the most nominated movie in the longlists for the British Academy Film Awards, closely followed by “Brokeback Mountain ...

THE release this month of Rob Marshall’s movie “Memoirs of a Geisha,” based on Arthur Golden’s bestselling 1997 novel, is inspiring tours and hotel packages in Kyoto, Japan, where Golden’s heroine ...

The evocative movie Memoirs of a Geisha opened in American theaters last December, drawing crowds with its stylish depiction of a geisha's life in pre-World War II Japan, earning itself a pair of ...

Although hampered by a transparent plot, a lean and implausible one-joke premise and a tendency to fluctuate uneasily between comedy and drama, the picture has been richly and elaborately produced on ...

After long years of development, a movie version of the best-selling novel “Memoirs of a Geisha” is headed into production. The book became a sensation around the world when it was first published in ...

TOKYO -- In bringing the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha" to Japan, distributor Buena Vista International faced a quandary: How do you market an exotic Hollywood fantasy about geisha to a country that ...