Is the transaction elevated if there is very little sex, a lot of cash, and the prostitute gets hardly any of either? Hard to say. Certainly the traditions of the geisha house are culturally fascinating in their own right. But if this movie had been set in the West, it would be perceived as about children sold into prostitution, and that is not nearly as wonderful as 'being raised as a geisha.'

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Still, I object to the movie not on sociological grounds but because I suspect a real geisha house floated on currents deeper and more subtle than the broad melodrama on display here. I could list some Japanese films illustrating this, but the last thing the audience for 'Memoirs of a Geisha' wants to see is a more truthful film with less gorgeous women and shabbier production values.

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This is one of the best-looking movies in some time, deserving comparison with 'Raise the Red Lantern' (in more ways than one). On the level of voluptuous visual beauty, it works if you simply regard it. The women are beauties, their world swims in silks and tapestries, smoke and mirrors, and the mysteries of hair when it is up vs. hair when it is down.

I am not disturbed in the least that the three leading Japanese characters in the film are played by women of Chinese descent. This casting been attacked as ethnically incorrect, but consider that the film was made by a Japanese-owned company; the intent was not to discriminate against Japanese, but in favor of the box office. The movie was cast partly on the basis of star power: Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li and Michelle Yeoh are not only great beauties and gifted actresses, but box office dynamite. Even in Japan, Zhang and Li outgross any Japanese actress.

They do wonders with their characters, who are trapped in a formula fiction but suggest possibilities they cannot explore. There isn't the faintest suggestion of free will, but then free will has never played much of a role in the world of a geisha. That's made clear at the outset, circa 1929, when a widowed fisherman sells his daughters on the human market in Kyoto. The older girl, although hardly old enough for sex, is sold directly into prostitution, while the 9-year-old Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo) is sold to a geisha house where she will be an unpaid servant until it is determined if she is elegant enough for the house's clientele.

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Geisha, also known as geiko or geiki, are traditional Japanese female entertainers whose skills include music and dance, fine conversation, and tea ceremony. Geisha are easily recognizable by their hairstyle, their elaborate kimono and their white make-up.

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Geisha who have not yet completed their training are called maiko ('dancing girl/child'), and tend to be more colorfully arrayed than their adult counterparts, with different hair pieces for each month, and different styles according to the level of apprenticeship. A young maiko is apprenticed to an 'onee-san' (older sister), a fully-fledged geisha whom she assists, resides with, and learns from. Traditionally, those who chose to marry had to retire from the profession, though today, some geisha are allowed to marry.

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For a long time the role of the geisha has been seen as mysterious, exotic, and alluring. Contrary to popular belief, geisha are not prostitutes (that would be yuujo or 'pleasure women', of which the top tier were the famous 'oiran' or 'tayuu', both predating geisha), but rather practitioners of the traditional arts, party hostesses and professional conversationalists, with stage names and distinct personal lives. On the other hand they weren't nuns either, as a geisha was free to be romantically and/or sexually involved with guests. Sex for money is off the menu though — back in the day, even before prostitution was banned in Japan in 1956, prostitutes had to be licensed to work as such, and geisha were licensed as geisha; a woman couldn't hold both licenses, it was illegal. That hasn't stopped them from being the object of many a fantasy.

It is interesting to consider that Maids can be considered a modern and Kawaiiko take on the job of a geisha: dancing, singing, playing games, talking with the customers. See also 'Yamato Nadeshiko', the archetype of Japanese femininity.

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• Femme Fatale: Often play the part in Japanese tales and older literature and modern media, but not to the extent that the oiran did in theatre plays.
• Gorgeous Period Dress: Their costume is an obsolete style, and a great deal more showy than the modern fashions. Maiko, during their training, tend to be very brightly and colorfully dressed, while fully-fledged geisha are dressed in more understated colors.
• Kimono Fanservice: The style they wear screams fancy in Kimonese.
• Only One Name: Geisha are typically known by just one name, which are 'professional' names often taken from poetry or classic literature. As geisha move up the ranks, they change their names to reflect this.

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• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Black hair, white make-up, bright red lipstick.
• Training from Hell: They undergo demanding training, and some works like to exaggerate it.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Zig-zagged. The image of a demure, quiet and calm Nadeshiko is the Japanese ideal of a wife, whose domain is the hearth. Geisha have the Yamato Nadeshiko looks but aren't wives, so their talkative, flirty and unabashed attitude at a banquet is the opposite of that. The stereotype of geisha as servile doormats is mostly Orientalist fantasy, their obsequiousness stops at pouring sake for the guests (which they unload to the maiko, who as learn-by-seeing apprentices can't do a lot more than pouring sake and looking pretty).

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• Mademoiselle Butterfly is about a young geisha in training called Butterfly and her romance with her childhood friend Chinatsu.
• In Zodiac PI, the mystery revolving around Gemini focuses on a pair of twins (of course) who are also maiko. The solution to the mystery is that one of the twins was wearing the wrong headpiece for the particular month — she had used the headpiece to stab the man who was stalking her, and could no longer use it.
• Erika from Pokémon Red and Blue resembles this a bit, in the Pokémon anime she even dressed like a Geisha at a few points.
  • Sakura and her older sisters (Satsuki, Tamao, Koume and Sumomo), inspired by the 'Kimono Girls' from the games, are also seen dressed as Geishas and performing activities like ikebana and tea ceremony, before changing into normal clothes and accepting Ash's challenges.
• Hotaru Enjouji from Kizuna was this in the past. She also was The Mistress of a powerful yakuza from Kyoto, but ran away from him and his entourage when she got pregnant with her son Kei aka the seme of the story.
• Benio's friend Kichiji from Haikara-san ga Tooru. Benio herself tries to become one to support Shinobu's grandparents economically, but it doesn't work and goes into the news business instead.
• Satsuki from Thermae Romae is a part-time onsen geisha (like her mother was) and does traditional dances for the inn guests.
• Aria's mother in Akatsuki no Aria worked as a geisha before having her.
• The seventh Detective ConanNon-Serial Movie, set in Kyoto, has the characters investigating in the Gion district and befriending the teahouse owner Tae Yamakura, the maiko and Tae's adoptive daughter Suzu Chika and the geisha Kayo Ichi. Suzu is one of the suspects of being a Serial Killer, specially since she's a former archer when at least one of the victims was killed with arrows, but she turns out to just be a Red Herring.
• Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu has Miyokichi, the Femme Fatale of the series in the days before Konatsu. In episode 4 she is seen with maiko hairclips but later she graduates to geisha.
• Tamagotchi: This is what Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi transform into in Yume Kira Dream episode 28, where they have to use this transformation to get Super Yadokaritchi (a giant hermit crab Tamagotchi) to leave Ikaritchi's garage, which he was using as a shell to live in.

• Although she's not one, Shi uses geisha's makeup (white face with bright red lips) and haircut as a form of homage of her heritage (she's half-Japanese half-American). In some artworks, she's seen dressed as one, in Stripperific form of course.

• RoboGeisha is the story of two sisters: Kikuyakko 'Kikue' Kagusa, a Geisha who is renowned for her beauty, and Yoshie Kagusa, who works as a servant in the same teahouse as Kikuyakko. Yoshie suffers near constant abuse at the hands of her elder sister, who derides her lack of grace and potential for becoming a Geisha at every opportunity. While Yoshie for the most part tries to take this treatment in stride, at times her rage boils over and manifests itself in almost-superhuman feats of strength. Their lives change when the young heir of the Kagano Steel Manufacturing corporation notices one of these feats, and forces the sisters to become part of his private army of geisha assassins. Accepting their fate, the sisters quickly rise through the ranks of the geisha corps, constantly replacing their human flesh with ever more deadly and bizarre mechanical body-parts and weaponry, each hoping to out-do the other in their ongoing rivalry.
• The Twilight Samurai.
• Because Chamberlain Oishi spent two years partying in the pleasure quarters for cover, any version of the story of The 47 Ronin—like, say, The 47 Ronin (1941)—will show both geisha and prostitutes.
• Quite a few American movies of the 50s and 60s would show some geisha for exotic fanservice: from My Geisha with Shirley McLaine undergoing a geiko henshin to re-seduce her fiance to The Geisha Boy with Jerry Lewis (not as a geisha, thank goodness) to The Teahouse of the August Moon with Machiko Kyo as the geisha 'Lotus Blossom'. She actually had some geisha training, so what you see is pretty authentic.
• In Ginza Cosmetics, Yukiko used to be one, and she still dresses the part, and her date with Ishikawa reveals that she still has the gift for intelligent conversation. But she has fallen on hard times and has long since become a lower-rent bar girl and prostitute.
• Enjo: Tayama, the abbot at a Buddhist temple, impregnates his geisha mistress, much to novice monk Goichi's horror.
• In Farewell to Spring this trope overlaps with High-Class Call Girl. The local geishas work as classic geishas; the five young men who are the central characters hire three geishas to sing and dance at a party. But they also work as prostitutes, as dialogue explains that a 'Prostitute Ban' has made life more difficult for the local geishas.
• Clothes of Deception is another Japanese film that blurs the distinction between geisha and High-Class Call Girl. Machiko Kyo (again) plays Kimicho, who dresses as a geisha and does the traditional fan dance and whatnot. But she also demands the money up front and sees more than one client, sometimes more than one in a day. When one client hesitates to come up with a large sum of money Kimicho is demanding, she bluntly says 'No sex for you!'. Her mother Kiju, a more traditionalist geisha who per the usual style was The Mistress to a single wealthy patron (Kimicho's father, in fact), disapproves.

• In James Clavell's Shogun, Kikuchiyo is a forerunner to a geisha, with a manager, an apprentice, and an exceptional level of refinement in all the entertainment arts (including that of love). In fact, she is the inspiration for her manager, Gyoko (a now retired entertainer) to suggest to Toranaga a class of women exclusively for the performing arts.
• Memoirs of a Geisha and its film adaptation tells the story of Chiyo, a little girl whose dirt poor family sells her in order to make ends meet. Some of her companions in fate end up being sold to brothels, but the pretty Chiyo is lucky enough to be bought into a geisha house to be a servant, and later, if she proves worthy, an apprentice, thus becoming the famous geisha Sayuri. Despite how the book gives the impression of being a biography and based on real life, it's pure fiction and contains its share of inaccuracies. The one most aficionados would name first is the auctioning of the virginity of maiko about to graduate as geiko.
  • In fact, the book was 'inspired' by the life of the real geisha Mineko Iwasaki. Iwasaki got so upset at the author, Arthur Golden, that she sued him and then wrote her own book (Geisha of Gion) to counter all the fictionalization.
• In non-fiction 1890 travel memoir Around the World in Seventy-Two Days, Nellie Bly visits Yokohama and attends a performance by 'dancing, or geisha, girls.' She is enchanted by their beauty and grace.

• Night and Day's Jane Harper is working as a geisha by the time we finally re-encounter her in the flesh, a full year since her initial disappearance. She's now black-haired, amnesia-stricken, and in residence at a club called the Black Chrysanthemum, where it seems she is actually required to work as a prostitute.

• The cover of KISS's 1977 album Love Gun is a painting of the band members standing at the entrance to what looks like a Greco-Roman temple, and on the steps just below them are several scantily-clad women in whiteface who could possibly be geisha, although they have long hair and are not wearing kimonos. In fact, given that Gene Simmons's 'demon' makeup is directly inspired by kabuki theatre, and the massive popularity Kiss have enjoyed in Japan since their earliest days, that could very well be what these women are.
• The album cover for Sparks' breakthrough album Kimono My House had two geishas with one winking and another with her hair down.
• The Psycho le Cému's music video 'Yume Kazaguruma' shows in the chorus how geishas are performing their typical dances, accompanied of the other members of the band.

• In Rocket Age Julandri Courtesans are essentially Geishas on Mars, while also holding true to some of the professional mistress stereotypes.

• Averted: Cio-Cio San in Madame Butterfly may look like a geisha, but isn't: she still lives with her family (a geisha would live in a geisha house) and is getting married, which in real life geisha are not allowed to do unless they retire.
• Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo and Pitti-Sing are three Maiko (apprentice Geisha) in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. The work is far from being accurate, and many productions play it Up to Eleven, making these characters a pile of anachronisms and inaccuracies.
• In Pacific Overtures, the number 'Pretty Lady' is sung to a pretty Japanese girl whom the three sailors can't figure out is a geisha or not.
• Portrayed pretty accurately in The Teahouse of the August Moon, with Sakini specifically explaining to Capt. Frisby that Lotus Blossom is not a High-Class Call Girl but provides entertainment, conversation, and companionship.

• Pokemon SoulSilver and Heart Gold features six Geisha (called 'kimono girls' in the English version) who the protagonist meets though his or her journey, cumulating in an event where they use a dance ceremony to summon Lugia or Ho-oh depending on the version. (Who you have to try to tame.)
• Can be trained by daimyo in Shogun: Total War and Total War: Shogun 2 games. They're pretty far up the tech tree, but if you get them they are excellent at assassinating targets - unlike ninjas their presence in a province is known to your target, but they cannot be openly killed because that would be considered dishonorable (the only ways to get rid of the threat is to either sic a ninja or send a geisha of your own for a Mutual Kill).
• The character design of Deande from Battleborn uses many traits common to the typical Geisha look - a waist ribbon from the back, pale white face makeup and the use of fans. Her small red lip makeup and hair done up with thin blades sticking out of no doubt were inspired by it as well. The thing she just really lacks is the kimono.
• Kokoro from Dead or Alive series is a maiko in training by her mother Miyako, a retired geisha who's also a scientist for DOATEC and partner of Lisa Hamilton. She also sports the Yamato Nadeshiko personality as well a pink kimono as her main outfit. Her ending in DOA4 hinted that she eventually will become a proper geisha in a future.
• Soul Series: In all of Setsuka’s incarnations, she has been depicted as wearing a kimono or a similar robe. Her first design, as seen in Soul Calibur III, was similar to the Japanese courtesans known as Oiran, who wore cosmetics and clothing similar to geisha but tied their sashes in the front of their belts instead of wearing a backwards obi. This similarity was referenced in one of Setsuka’s kicks, “Oiran kick”.
• In Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, at some point when the Cooper Gang time travels to ancient Japan, Murray had to disguise himself as a Geisha in order to get some intel on the criminal they were fighting. All other Geisha were only seen on posters around the Geisha house.
• In Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!, The town of Concordia has a Geisha Bot named Sereena who works for Moxxi. She doesn't appear in the game outside of an Echo recording.

• Yakkohan from GENCO's Charawood shorts is about two journeying tofu-shaped maiko sisters.

• Yumi's Lyoko form in Code Lyoko seems to be based at least in part on that of a Geisha, altered into that of an Action Girl. (Until the fourth season where Jeremie's upgrade makes her look more like a Ninja.)
• The makeup that the Action Girl team Kyoshi Warriors from Avatar: The Last Airbender sport is influenced by geisha makeup in addition to using influences from Kabuki makeup, plus their outfits are Samurai-influenced. It's not surprising that their makeup is based on Avatar Kyoshi's makeup.