The Memoirs of a Geisha

Amazing movie. The movie is about the journey of a young girl, who goes on to become one of the best Geisha Japan has ever known. A Geisha, is one of those Japanese girls who plays around with fans and entertains everyone. Basically an entertainer, who also hosts parties and such.
In the movie, most of the Japanese don't have immaculate English, the Japanese accent appears, which makes it hard to understand in the begenning, but you get familiarised with it. This makes the movie authentic, and the accent is a clever way to show the Japanese culture without actually using the language. What makes this cooler is because of the many regional dialects in Japan, the accents too, are as varied, which completes the effect.
The movie makes you think that your eyes are leeching the colours off the screen. The set was custome made, and an entire District in Japan recunstructed from the cobblestone streets upwards to a river and period styled buildings. John Williams chose to conduct the score for this film instead of Harry Potter 4. Actually, that wasn't worth mentioning - all of William's work appear to be more or less the same, but I don't claim to be an expert.
The experts (or those who claim to be experts) are, however pleased With Rob Marshall's follow up to Chicago, and the film has recieved nominations for the Art Direction, Cinematorgaphy, Costume Design, Original Score, Sound and Sound editing Oscars.
The movie captures the mystery of the extent of a Geisha's entertainment, because while it makes clear that the Geisha are not prostitutes, there is some confusion over the Mizuage ritual, a ritual which makrs the passage of an apperentice Geisha to a real one, by the sale of the virginity of the apperentice to the highest bidder. This is the single largest amount of money that a Geisha earns in her lifetime. This may look like prostitution, but its not. The films tresses the point that Geisha culture is mostly a secret, little understood by even the Japanese.
Which became funny because of half the cast being Chinese, and the people who made the movie thinking that this would not be noticed by non oriental people.
The movie, also ends up looking like an AMERICAN period film. This happens mostly because of the lack of scientific wisdom in the Japanese sayings. Like "water finds it's own way." Ancient sayings have the knack of being scientifically true as well, without the truth in the parallels too.