Memoirs of a Geisha

A story like mine has never been told.

Plot Summary

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

secret love

japan

prostitute

sibling relationship

geisha

brothel

mentor

world war ii

loss of virginity

period drama

biting

kimono

sumo

kyoto, japan

1920s

1940s

1930s

desperate

loving

student mentor relationship

loss of sister

loss of parents

admiring

appreciative

authoritarian

disrespectful