She goes back to the city and reunites with Pumpkin and Mameha and convinces them to help her. After the war, when Nobu reaches out to her for help, Sayuri agrees to his proposition because she hopes to see the Chairman again. When he sees that his friend Nobu has become attracted to Sayuri, he decides to step aside, hoping Sayuri will bring some semblance of peace to Nobu’s troubled life. As the Chairman later reveals, he recognizes her during this meeting and becomes interested in her. Their second encounter occurs when Sayuri is still serving as the maid at the Okiya. As she tells him, every step that she has taken in her life has led her to him. Since the moment of their first meeting, Sayuri has been in love with the Chairman. And it is heavily hinted that Chairman becomes Sayuri’s danna. Yes, they reunite at the end of the film. Memoirs of a Geisha Ending: Do Sayuri and the Chairman End up Together? Realizing that fate has brought her an opportunity to see the Chairman again, Sayuri accepts. After the war, Nobu comes seeking Sayuri’s help for both him and the Chairman. She spends several years there, working for a kimono maker. The Chairman and his friend Nobu (Kōji Yakusho) ensure Sayuri’s safety by sending her to the countryside. Then World War II arrives, and a significant number of the geisha are taken to the cities which can potentially get bombed. That night, Hatsumomo nearly burns down the Okiya, which results in her departure. As Mameha has been hoping for, Mother subsequently chooses Sayuri over Pumpkin as her successor. Eventually, Sayuri becomes the most famous geisha in Kyoto, outshining both Mameha and Hatsumomo. Meanwhile, Hatsumomo has taken Pumpkin under her wing. Chiyo subsequently becomes a maiko, a geisha in training, and receives a new name, Sayuri. When Chiyo is 15, the other prominent geisha of Kyoto, Mameha (Michelle Yeoh), visits the Nitta Okiya to ask Mother to let her train Chiyo in the geisha arts. She keeps the handkerchief that he gives her and visits a nearby shrine to pray to the deity for her to become a geisha and meet the Chairman again. The meeting leaves a deep impression on Chiyo. One day, on a bridge over the River Sunagawa, she encounters Chairman (Ken Watanabe), who, after seeing her crying, buys her a shaved ice cone. The narrator of the film, a much older version of Chiyo, informs the audience that she never saw her sister again. She learns that her parents are dead, and her sister has managed to escape. However, following a failed attempt to escape from the Okiya and flee somewhere else with her sister, Chiyo’s position in the Okiya is reverted to a maid again. Hatsumomo becomes jealous of not what Chiyo is now but what she can potentially become.Ĭhiyo enrolls in a geisha school, formally beginning her training. She finds a friend in Pumpkin (Youki Kudoh), a girl of her age, and an enemy in Hatsumomo (Gong Li), the sole active geisha of the Okiya and one of the two most prominent geisha of the city. Chiyo’s initial rebellious phase begins to wither away as she learns that there is little chance of finding her sister in the maze of tiled roofs that is the hanamachi. And Satsu is subsequently taken to a brothel.Ĭhiyo meets Kayoko “Mother” Nitta (Kaori Momoi), the current proprietor of the Okiya, and her predecessor, Grandmother (Kotoko Kawamura). After Auntie (Tsai Chin), one of the residents of the Nitta Okiya, sees both sisters, she only selects Chiyo. The two sisters are then taken to a hanamachi (the district where the geisha live and perform) in Kyoto. After her mother falls ill, her father sells her and her sister Satsu, hoping that they will be accepted in a geisha house and send their earnings back home. Born in a small fishing Hamlet by the ocean, Chiyo leads an impoverished life with her family.
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