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Night Walk is an American crime thriller drama film written and directed by Aziz Tazi and starring Sean Stone, Mickey Rourke, Sarah Alami, French rapper La Fouine and Eric Roberts. The film is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet between the West and the Middle East that turns into a crime drama.
Sisters of the Gion (1936) by Kenji Mizoguchi. Sisters of the Gion (Japanese: 祇園の姉妹, Hepburn: Gion no kyōdai) or Sisters of Gion is a 1936 black and white Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi about two geisha sisters living in Kyoto's Gion district. [6]
Memoirs of a Geisha is a historical fiction novel by American author Arthur Golden, published in 1997.The novel, told in first person perspective, tells the story of Nitta Sayuri and the many trials she faces on the path to becoming and working as a geisha in Kyoto, Japan, before, during and after World War II.
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 by Arthur Golden. [2] [3] It tells the story of a young Japanese girl, Chiyo Sakamoto, who is sold by her impoverished family to a geisha house to support them by training as and eventually becoming a geisha under the pseudonym "Sayuri Nitta."
[2] [7] After the film's success, [8] Mizoguchi and producer Masaichi Nagata planned two films to be set in Kyōto and Kōbe, of which only the former, Sisters of the Gion, was realised due to the production company's collapse. [6] Mizoguchi himself cited Osaka Elegy and Sisters of the Gion as the works with which he achieved artistic maturity. [4]
A Geisha received the 1954 Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor (Eitarō Shindō) and for Best Supporting Actress (Chieko Naniwa). [3]The film is regarded as one of Mizoguchi's major works by critics and historians, described as "elegantly made […] and poignant in the extreme" (Geoff Andrew, Time Out), [4] "incredibly beautiful" and "compassionate but completely unsentimental ...
Gion houses two hanamachi, or geisha districts: Gion Kobu (祇園甲部) and Gion Higashi (祇園東).The two were originally the same district, but split many years ago. Gion Kobu is larger, occupying most of the district including the famous street Hanamikoji, while Gion Higashi is smaller and occupies the northeast corner, centered on its rehearsal h
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