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Memoirs of a Geisha

France, Japan and United States of America, 2005
film

A 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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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

A woman's place

Australia, 1979
Similarity: 73%

The Barbarian and the geisha (Captioned)

United States, 1958
Similarity: 72%

Japan: work and play in the land of the cherry blossom

United Kingdom, 1950
Similarity: 71%

Arts of Japan

United States, 1954
Similarity: 71%

Sisters of Gion = Gion no shimai [NTSC]

Japan, 1936
Similarity: 71%

Tales of the Taira Clan = Shin heiki monogatari

Japan, 1955
Similarity: 71%

Ugetsu Monogatari = Tales of the pale and silvery moon after the rain

Japan, 1953
Similarity: 70%

Ugetsu Monogatari [Extract]

Japan, 1953
Similarity: 70%

Farewell my concubine

China, 1993
Similarity: 69%

The Handmaiden

South Korea, 2016
Similarity: 69%

The Pillow book

United Kingdom, 1996
Similarity: 69%

The Geisha boy

United States, 1958
Similarity: 69%

The Realm of the senses = Ai no corrida [Widescreen] (E)

Japan, 1976
Similarity: 69%

Mishima: a life in four chapters

United States, 1985
Similarity: 69%

Glimpses of enchanting Japan

Japan, 1968
Similarity: 68%

Sakuran

Japan, 2006
Similarity: 68%

Hiroshima mon amour

France, 1959
Similarity: 68%

So small my island

United States, 1975
Similarity: 68%
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