TOKYO -- In bringing the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha" to Japan, distributor Buena Vista International faced a quandary: How do you market an exotic Hollywood fantasy about geisha to a country that ...
Novelist Arthur Golden never thought his international best-seller "Memoirs of a Geisha" would be made into a film. Even after producers Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher bought the movie rights, he still ...
Arthur Golden's 1997 tale appealed to director Marshall (Chicago) for the same reasons it attracted millions of readers: because it "not only peers into the fascinating and forbidden world of a geisha ...