Suzuka Ohgo	Chiyo
Togo Igawa	Tanaka
Samantha Futerman	Satsu
Thomas Ikeda	Mr. Bekku
Li Gong	Hatsumomo
Tsai Chin	Auntie
Kaori Momoi	Mother
Zoe Weizenbaum	Young Pumpkin
Ziyi Zhang	Chiyo/Sayuri
Ken Watanabe	The Chairman
Koji Yakusho	Nobu
Youki Kudoh	Pumpkin
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa	The Baron

Director	Rob Marshall
Producer	Roger Birnbaum Lucy Fisher
Writer	Robin Swicord Arthur Golden
Cinematography	Dion Beebe
Musician	John Williams

The movie begins in a small fishing village in 1920s Japan. Chiyo and her older sister are bought from their homes. Her sister is sold to a brothel and Chiyo is brought as a servant to one of the geisha-houses in Kyoto instead. To make matters worse, the house's geisha Hatsumomo goes out of her way to make Chiyo's life miserable. Luckily, a fellow-serving girl named Pumpkin befriends Chiyo and gives her hope. If she does all that she is told, she may attend school and eventually attain freedom by becoming a geisha herself. Driven to despair by Hatsumomo and about to give up, Chiyo happens to meet The Chairman. The Chairman shows Chiyo a small kindness, and Chiyo falls in love. She makes it her lifelong goal to be the kind of geisha worthy of his attention. Chiyo continues to attend school and is taken under the wing of Mameha, an expert geisha who is also Hatsumomo's hated enemy. As Mameha's apprentice, Chiyo's name becomes Sayuri and she blossoms into a geisha more beautiful and talented than even Hatsumomo. But when WWII splits the geisha district of Kyoto apart, Sayuri escapes and ceases being a geisha. It is when she returns to post-WWII Gion to resume her geisha lifestyle that Sayuri meets again with The Chairman to try once again to win his love.

Edition Details Audience Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance) Country USA Language Japanese Distributor Sony Pictures Barcode 043396211278 Region Region 1 Release Date 9/25/2007 Packaging HD Case Screen Ratio Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1) Subtitles English; French; Spanish; Portuguese; English (Closed Captioned); Korean; Thai; Chinese Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] Dolby Digital 5.1 [French] Dolby Digital 5.1 [Thai] PCM [English] Layers Single Side, Dual Layer No. of Disks/Tapes 1 Features Commentary with Rob Marshall and John DeLuca Commentary with Colleen Atwood, John Myhre and Pietro Scalia Sayuri's Journey: From the Novel to the Screen The Road to Japan Geisha Bootcamp Building the Hanamachi The Look of a Geisha The Music of Memoirs A Geisha's Dance The World of the Geisha The Way of the Sumo Director Rob Marshall's Story A Day with Chef Novu Matsuhisa Chef Nobu's Recipes Behind the Scenes Photo Gallery Costume Illustrations Photo Gallery

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