Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Directed by Rob Marshall · Cinematography by Dion Beebe
PG-13145 min65 frames
DramaRomanceHistory
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What is Memoirs of a Geisha about?
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.
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. 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". The film centers around the sacrifices and hardship faced by pre-World War II geisha, and the challenges posed to geisha society by the war and a modernizing world. It stars Zhang Ziyi in the lead role, with Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, Youki Kudoh, Suzuka Ohgo, Samantha Futerman and Ken Watanabe.
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What does the cinematography of Memoirs of a Geisha look like?
Across 64 sampled frames, Memoirs of a Geisha builds its coverage from medium shots (41% of the sample), with wide compositions (28%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Dion Beebe keeps 56% of it in soft, low-key light. 55% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 67% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) are #2f2d2b, #140f0c, #30251c, #4b3a31, #52504b, #271912 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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