KYOTO (Reuters Life!) - Becoming a geisha is already hard enough for most modern Japanese young women, but Komomo faced more obstacles than most: she was born in Mexico and spent part of her life ...
Rob Marshall and Robin Swicord’s 2005 historical film Memoirs of a Geisha follows Chiyo Sakamoto, a young girl forced by her family to become a geisha. Set in pre-World War II Japan, the movie delves ...