Memoirs Of A Geisha Essay

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The 2005 movie, Memoirs of a Geisha, portrays life of a young girl who becomes the most well known geisha in Japan. This film claims to be based off a true story, but how accurate is it really? Memoirs of a Geisha is historically accurate because it correctly portrays the process of becoming a geisha, some of the many social events geisha attended, and the events of World War II. In the movie, Sayuri starts out as a young girl working in the geisha house, and later becomes a full-fledged geisha. She attends social events from watching sumo wrestling to drinking tea with others on her way to the top. During World War II, Japan did some horrible things, so Sayuri and many others have to deal with the backlash that countries who were against them in the war brought. Memoirs of a Geisha is a movie about a young girl named Chiyo who grew up learning to become a geisha. Her parents sold her and her sister to an okiya, or geisha training house, in Miyako, Japan. Chiyo’s sister was rejected and sent away to a pleasure district, but she was accepted by the okasan, which means “mother,” and started her training. When she first arrived, she met another young girl named Pumpkin. They served the house and went to…show more content…
There is no information regarding that any of the characters were real people in history. Even if is the characters may possibly all be fictional, the events that happened in the movie definitely were true. In the movie, all of the responsibilities and tasks and that Sayuri and Pumpkin undertook to become a geisha along with all of the places they went were accurate. The movie was practically entirely based on the procedure a girl had to go through to develop into a geisha and it was all factual. The adolescent girls sold to an okiya started out by cleaning and gradually over time worked their way up to selling their mizuage and becoming geisha
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