Gong Li established herself as one of the biggest international stars to come out of China in the early 1990s, starring in the Oscar-nominated films “Ju Dou,” “Raise the Red Lantern” and “Farewell My ...
WHEN Chinese actress Gong Li makes her American film debut in “Memoirs of a Geisha” this Friday, it’ll be in a role some see as deliciously close to real life. Not that she’s a treacherous schemer ...
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA. With Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li. Director: Rob Marshall (2:25). PG-13: Mature subject matter and some sexual content. 3 Stars. In the luxuriant “Memoirs of a ...
CANNES, France (AP) — Actress Gong Li made a head-turning return to the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, but the “Memoir of a Geisha” star said she’s disappointed at the absence of Chinese ...
I suspect that the more you know about Japan and movies, the less you will enjoy "Memoirs of a Geisha." Much of what I know about Japan I have learned from Japanese movies, and on that basis I know ...
The cultural conundrums of bringing Arthur Golden's popular novel Memoirs of a Geisha to the big screen could make your head spin: The story of Japanese women carrying out an age-old tradition in the ...