Memoirs of a Geisha | Chiyo Begins Training

[@mercidee1977]

Michelle Yeoh has the most beautiful voice. Rich and smooth, like butterscotch or caramel.

[@marcussanchez9955]

She should do Audiobooks! I would spend SOOO much money on them!

[@mysilverscreendiary]

Agreed! Soothing and also sultry💓

[@lateblossom]

Well said.

[@jamiegarrity6439]

She's one of my favorite actresses of all time. She's powerful, poised, wise, beautiful, strong, and graceful.

[@heavenskitty790]

I know! I watch her parts over n over again. N yes her voice on audiobooks would rake in $$$$$$$$

[@junesilvermanb2979]

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

[@PropheticPassionMinistries]

Thank you.

[@affafdjebbar717]

This is lovely and motivational 😇

[@ellysai]

This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing it. Have you tried slapping water? It can be a wall too. 🌊

[@boci122]

love. It's been a while since I've read the book, is this a quote from it? Because I remember there being an emphasis on Chio/Sayrui having elements of water.

[@Starforme-xr6sb]

Oh

[@VividProductions123]

“That is a perfect bow. For a pig farmer” LOL Michelle’s savage here

[@TheMeloettaful]

I cackled at that part lol 🤣!

[@doinitagramu8139]

Read the book and find this scene, you will see Mameha is way more savage there 🤭

[@kiwimusume]

She didn’t mean for it to be; she was just being very blunt.

[@kokoririg]

🤦🏽‍♀️

[@ashharijaywardena]

In addition to what others have said about her charming voice, I have to point out that Michelle Yeoh's accent is fantastic. I know personally several educated Japanese women with strong British influences (mostly English) and she sounds just like them. And they're sweet and elegant ladies too, just like Mameha. Mameha's such a fair-minded character 🥰 She deserves to be loved tenderly :( This film is full of great performances, tbh. Hatsumomo, Sayuri, Chiyo, Okasa and even Pumpkin - all leave a striking impression!

[@brontiq]

This movie is pure perfection - the story, the costumes, the actors... Everything is incredible. I will never get sick of this movie

[@fangchick93]

I love how even from the beginning, Mameha is using these examples for teaching

[@daybyday1664]

Michelle forever will always be one of my favorite actresses.

[@daianbotelho]

Michelle was so magnificent in this movie, as she was in "Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon". And Zhang Ziyi did so well in these movies too!

[@mr808kingz]

"Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron."

[@bringiton5282]

First time I saw Michelle in a movie. I've loved her since. She has the good taste of setting a bar for holding oneself straight, speaking quietly and being steadfast.

[@nobodyuknow6337]

I, so many have back problems and I actually used Mameha's lesson on rising to actually get up when I can't lean on something and putting pressure on my knee hurts.

[@jonathancineus6424]

Michelle Yeoh is perfect to me. I wish she could live forever.

[@nina1522]

Michelle Yeoh is so beautiful, with such grace and poise.

[@Jimboy012]

Imagine how bizzare this would be to a Japanese person watching this in a theater. You need Japanese subtitles to understand two chinese women speaking english while acting Japanese.

[@florencechan1184]

😂 most important is that the actresses were beautiful no one could match the beauty and popularity of Michelle ziyi and gong li they are natural beauties no plastic surgery and all Asia admired them at that time .

[@oscarfun100]

Although Michelle Yeoh is not Chinese.

[@polarbear1878]

@@oscarfun100 She is, ethnically.

[@lopopachope]

@@polarbear1878she is Malaysian but yeah it would be weird since she’s not Japanese. It’s hard watching this movie and not thinking about how they are speaking English 😂

[@shahannagrey8427]

Love this movie…and All the Actors. The fact that the strongest roles are the women, is so cool!

[@mikipav1064]

Well, it's a movie about Geishas... if the strongest roles weren't the women, than something must've gone terribly wrong in production.

[@jeremyjealousy]

“I reward him like this.. with a glimpse of my wrist.”

[@boci122]

for those complaining about the hairstyles being unauthentic, there is truth to it. There is a BTS short about it. The makeup/hair department mostly stuck to the Maiko/Geisha traditional hairstyles. But also took liberties with it, like Sayuri having a very soft, well maintained hairstyle. Mameha having a mature maintained one, and allowing her hair to be down and styled in public. And Hatsummo being more brazen. Her geisha hairstyle has a lot of loose tendrils in it, which was done on purpose to reflect the way she bucks the traditions. Also, her coming out into the streets with long wet hair having just washed it, completely not real because it was unallowable, and geisha kept that very close. But, like the hair stylist on the set said : "Hatsummo, being Hatsummo, she does what she wants." Also she said "We're not here to make a documentary." Which is true.

[@hollyhayes9640]

I recommend the book too, if you haven't read it. It's good. ☺️

[@marikkelaszlo3355]

Mameha was so sweet in this movie lol

[@nicolehegarty4749]

Always by accident, of course lol 🤣

[@DragonGoddess18]

Michelle Yeoh is a great actress

[@AnayaWesleyy]

This will forever be my favorite movie.

[@reaganphillips6515]

Chiyo looks like the woman who played Imperial concubine gao in ruyi’s Royal palace

[@mimi100210]

Nah

[@massalleh5255]

The actress does look similiar to her

[@lslmadi]

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[@boop9430]

Indeed, the actress who played concubine Gao is know to look like Zhang Zi Yi (actress who played Chiyo)

[@AlexanderYamada]

I've always been disappointed in the fact that actual Japanese women weren't cast in the primary roles, but that said, Michelle Yeoh is the one I could never object to. She's just a stunning beauty and actress.

[@kiwimusume]

There are Japanese actresses who could have done it just as well. Maya Miki played a similarly stern but elegant teacher in Attention Please at around the same time this movie came out.

[@humps678]

From what I read, they tried to have a casting call for Japanese actresses, but none showed up.

[@marelissacigaos1887]

Who's here after Michelle Yeoh won the Oscar?

[@Frank.OKeeffe]

“Be Water, my friend!” - Bruce Lee

[@samvit91]

01:50 that little walk of them kill me lmao

[@jemybaldovinovelasco6382]

This movie is very spoilt for choice in terms of actresses, NOT A SINGLE DULL MOMENT❤️❤️❤️

[@b2kzangelalwayz]

Ugh the Baron was so disgusting

[@ArmednotTriggered]

Sayuri was 9 and the Chairman was 45 when they met. The Baron is hardly the only gross person.

[@your1supporter]

@@ArmednotTriggered At least the Chairman was handsome and didn't make lewd remarks.

[@pinkpastelhearts]

@@ArmednotTriggered and the chairman didnt sexually assault chiyo either, i hate men like that.

[@ArmednotTriggered]

@@your1supporter Do you really just "at least" a groomer because he's handsome? Yikes.

[@ArmednotTriggered]

@@pinkpastelhearts Yeah, the Baron is trash. But the Chairman is not a saint. I know it's portrayed as romantic and framed to be a happy ending, but he groomed a child.

[@shieldagentclintbarton9546]

It seams even outside the Mortal Kombat films from 1995 shang tsung still pulls strings

[@jpp28-l7v]

God I love Michelle here 🔥🔥🔥

[@lalruatpuiikhiangte7030]

Michelle Yeoh is stunning

[@FilmSureelist97]

Michelle Yeoh was a walking Dior commercial in this movie

[@sekeiakounamakiuchiah1912]

and they didnt tell me how stones of truth surgey look like oquuuuuueammmm girl

[@mdml0]

It's unfortunate that this movie was based on a book written by a non-Japanese which explains the confusion of Geisha with Oiran.

[@kiwimusume]

He should have just written about one of the colleagues of the geisha he interviewed. She came from even worse hardship than Chiyo’s. She died young, though. :(

[@MAD_NRG]

У Мишель такой тяжелый, глубокий голос, благородный 🤔 и очень четкое, понятное произношение для иностранцев, которые смотрят фильмы в оригинале. В нашем дубляже у Мамехи голос кристальный, переливающийся, как хрусталь)

[@daviddiehl-gy2sq]

One of her best roles, proving the they are not whores as people called them. Ladies, better than some rich old women.

[@WashingtonDC20032]

I see water in you.

[@mrsg2849]

By all means, play the sound at the end A LITTLE LOUDER. 🙄

[@LisaG442]

Ppl go on about how vindictive Hatsumomo was,Mameah was just as bad in her goal to destroy Hatsumomo .. and she used Siyuri to do it

[@shahannagrey8427]

I still think that someone was behind Mameha, instigating Chiyos elevation to Geisha. Not her Baron but the man Chico was in love with.

[@ElizaHamilton1780]

You didn’t read the book. Because if you did, you’d know better. The Chairman paid for Mameha to find her and train her. He was worried about her that day, after he found her crying and he bought her the shaved ice.

[@satinjazzdolls8615]

Yes, Mameha was using Siyuri, but her goal was not entirely selfish. Yes, she was trying to strike down Hatsumomo but not out of vindictiveness. She was trying to prevent the rise of a tyrant who would make life miserable for everyone. To prevent that from happening another had to be chosen in her place. Pumpkin couldn't do it; Hatsumomo would rule through her. Mameha couldn't do it herself, she wasn't part of that house. Siyuri was the only reasonable choice among limited choices. The story points this out, though, this small world of women that turned on each other. In the end Siyuri recognizes that she could have turned out like Hatsumomo, who must have been an innocent girl once and may only have turned mean as a product of the environment that raised her.

[@your1supporter]

@@ElizaHamilton1780 Whether you read the book or not you'd still know this because it's discussed at the end of the movie between the Chairman and Chiyo

[@knucklehoagies]

did you not read the book or even pay attention?.... the Chairman paid Mameha to apprentice Sayuri. Mameha was pure in her intentions.

[@kjnguyen1385]

She’s going take on arch nemesis Hatsumomo

[@TheSunsRay]

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[@rubenelias2198]

1:18

[@shellyzepeda]

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@francesu.6641]

🖤

[@Fritha71]

This movie is excruciating to watch! Why oh why hasn't anybody done an authentic Japanese version of it, with actors that actually can convincingly portray Japanese people, let alone geikos...! In Japanese, not fucking broken English.

[@Angelaaa1015]

Just shut up. Why watch it if you hate it?

[@thealetube3509]

@@Angelaaa1015 Well...he has a point though....

[@catherinejohnson9395]

Because when the movie was cast, the producers waited in vain for Japanese actors to audition for the main characters & no one did. When this movie originally came out, Time magazine did a big write up on it & I remember that was 1 thing that was discussed. They wanted Japanese actors. Of course they did. According to the article, no one showed up and they went with the Chinese actors.

[@FayeLawnKrack3d]

There is. It's titled "Sayuri."

[@DanBrown96]

Maybe because the book was written by a white American for a western audience. As was the film.

[@ผุสดีเทศลําลึก]

การอาบน้ำแบบญี่ปุ่น สะอาด และผิวสวย

[@jessicaburton2203]

Tell thus cardi B and Megan stallion

[@kiwimusume]

I now have an image in my head of these two geisha doing WAP and I am fine with that. 🤣

[@kiwimusume]

If you’re talking about WAP, that song is amazing.

[@sekeiakounamakiuchiah1912]

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[@ZekeBurns-om3yt]

Zhang Ziyi's performance is so cringe in this film. She's a genius in Mandarin, she's just weird in English.

[@kennedykingmaniii]

Speak for yourself.

[@dominiquepontleve4163]

japaneses women my dream

[@cybercriminal3110]

The actresses are Chinese

[@andronikusable]

Two chinese bad actresses playing geisha... lame.

[@alphagerudo]

Great Casting!