Summer Reading Movie Festival: Memoirs of a Geisha

Join us for a host of films this summer featuring books that were made into films. You've read the book(or heard about it), now see the movie.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho
Columbia Pictures; Directed by Rob Marshall
Rated PG-13; 145 minutes; 2005

This sweeping romantic epic sends us through the mysterious and exotic world of the geisha. Impoverished nine-year-old Chiyo is sold to a geisha house and treated cruelly until her stunning beauty is recognized and she is rescued. Chiyo goes on to become the most famous geisha in Japan, entering a society of wealth, privilege and political intrigue until World War II changes the world forever.