Geisha (芸者) (/ˈɡeɪʃə/; Japanese: [ɡeːɕa]), also known as geiko (芸子) (in Kyoto and Kanazawa) or geigi (芸妓), are female Japanese performing artists and entertainers...
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Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 American epic period drama film directed by Rob Marshall and adapted by Robin Swicord from the 1997 novel of the same name...
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Memoirs of a Geisha: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the film score to the 2005 film of the same name, composed and conducted by John Williams. The...
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collaborated with Williams again on the score for the 2005 film Memoirs of a Geisha. He has also worked with Italian composer Ennio Morricone and has recorded...
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Retrieved 2018-01-03. Perini Navi (2010-07-28). "Perini sailing yacht Ma Geisha for sale with Edmiston & Company". SuperYacht Times. Retrieved 2018-01-03...
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United States, where he earned an M.A. in English at Boston University. Golden's most well-known novel, Memoirs of a Geisha, was written over a six-year period...
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Taikomochi (category Types of geisha)
Taikomochi (太鼓持), also known as hōkan (幇間), were the original male geisha of Japan. The Japanese version of the jester, taikomochi were once attendants...
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district in the 1950s but continued as a geisha district (hanamachi) for a few more years. By the 1970s, geisha were no longer registered in Shimabara....
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Yoshiwara, alongside other licensed districts, would eventually originate geisha, who would become known as the fashionable companions of the chōnin classes...
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Ho Yeow Sun (redirect from Sun aka geisha)
Without You (2005) Gone (2006) China Wine (as Sun AKA Geisha) (2007) Mr. Bill (as Sun AKA Geisha) (2008) Fancy Free (2009) "Sun Ho". City Harvest Church...
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studio films and soundtracks, including The Joy Luck Club and Memoirs of a Geisha. Masakazu Yoshizawa was born on September 10, 1950, in Hida, Gifu, Japan...
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Beyond the Horizon 2005: Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone, arranged and conducted by Ennio Morricone Memoirs of a Geisha (soundtrack) (with Itzhak Perlman)...
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cornerstone[citation needed] of traditional Japanese aesthetic appeal and thought. Both geisha and kimono, amongst other cultural aspects, are thought to have been influenced...
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Little Women (1994), Matilda (1996), Practical Magic (1998), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), the latter of which...
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most critically acclaimed works are the period drama film Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), which earned her nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best...
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0 1 Lolita 1962 35th 0 1 Long Day's Journey into Night 1962 35th 0 1 My Geisha 1962 35th 0 1 Now Hear This 1963 35th 0 1 Pan 1962 35th 0 1 Period of Adjustment...
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Dartmouth, Massachusetts (redirect from Dartmouth, MA)
the American Civil War Arthur Golden (born 1956), author, Memoirs of a Geisha (summer resident) Edward Howland Robinson Green (1868–1936), a businessman...
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types are worn to funerals, weddings, graduations, and other formal events. Geisha and maiko are required to wear a kimono as part of their profession, and...
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film scores (including Star Wars, The Phantom of the Opera, Memoirs of a Geisha among others). Sony Masterworks maintains the archive of theater soundtracks...
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okiya (geisha lodging house) of geisha Otsuta, who lives with her daughter Katsuyo, her younger sister Yoneko and Yoneko's child, and geisha Nanako....
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National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), directed by Rob Marshall. Other notable appearances include Flirting...
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describes an ageing ex-geisha who makes preparations to meet a former lover while reflecting on her past life. 56-year-old ex-geisha Kin receives a phone...
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want to go camping, either. Jeff and Ricky go to the movies. 97 22 "The Geisha Girl" Norman Tokar Tom & Helen August February 16, 1961 (1961-02-16) Donna...
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(1999), Roland Emmerich's The Patriot (2000) and Rob Marshall's Memoirs of a Geisha (2005). Williams scored the 2013 film The Book Thief, his first collaboration...
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2019. Whitworth, Damian (8 March 2011). "Ghislaine Maxwell: 'A modern day geisha girl of the capitalist world'". The Times. Archived from the original on...
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Geisha Song (2010) was a looping short film exhibited with "The Love Doll" series; it consisted of dream-like views of a doll made up as a geisha, set...
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Malice Mizer (redirect from Ma chérie)
"Malice Mizer". Shoxx (in Japanese). Vol. 38. March 1996. pp. 98–101. Geisha (March 19, 2011). "传记特别篇:Mana(Part 1. 自我探索)". JaME World (in Chinese). Retrieved...
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Burbank, and the Resulting Imaginings". The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient (Illustrated ed.). PublicAffairs...
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District 2006 1 1 Crash 2005 3 6 Brokeback Mountain 2005 3 8 Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 3 6 King Kong 2005 3 4 Capote 2005 1 5 Walk the Line 2005 1 5 The Constant...
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type of shop the machiya held. Silk or thread shops, rice sellers, okiya (geisha houses), and liquor stores, among others, each had their own distinctive...
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