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The movie fails to focus on what really matters for a story like this. The weird mixture of an English speaking American production with Chinese people playing Japanese characters makes it for a confusing unimmersive cultural storytelling. The real potential to tell the true unknown worlds of geishas is thrown out the window only to be substituted by pretty dresses and good actresses. And that's where the movie shines, the locations, set and costume design, make up, etc.. but they don't have anything to carry on them.

Story of a girl, who trains her whole life to become the most popular Geisha.

It's not a shocking revelation in this day and age to realize and speak about how much various media outlets have influence on our lives. Butsince this movie is from 1951 and I honestly do not know how much people knew or cared about questioning these media outlets at the time, I think it may have been a brave and visionary movie. It has a simple storyline and I admit it felt stretched out in certain moments but it was still entertaining to me because it gave me a lot of Nightcrawler vibes.

An arrogant journalist who had a fallout with his boss, decides to go to extreme lengths in order to try to completely oversell a boring story and revive his career.

This movie manages to tell a historical story with a touch of comedy and Lanthimos style darkness. It looks amazing throughout and has near perfect acting performances by the three lead actresses. The cinematography, set and costume designs are also brilliant. If I had to find something negative to point out about this movie, it would be its' ending but for me since this type of ending is a recurring theme for this director; I digress.

Story of the turbulent relationship between the Queen, the queen's current best friend and that friend's newly arrived cousin.