Memoria of a geisha

            
            
             1929 after Chiyo's mother die; her father sells her to the Geisha house in Kyoto. Chiyo works as a maid and learns to be a geisha at the same time. Because of her beauty and unusual gray color eyes, the famous geisha Hatusmomo is jealous, and makes her life utterly miserable. During the training period, Chiyo tries to escape but she is catch by the owner of the house (Chiyo calls her mother), so mother stops her training, and Chiyo has to be a maid for her whole life.
             One day, Chiyo meets the chairman, a wealth man in the city. She is moved by the chairman's kindness. Chiyo determined to be a geisha after that, because this is the only way to meet the chairman again. Chiyo meets another person sequential, Mameha who changes Chiyo's life totally. Mameha adopts Chiyo as her sister, and teaches Chiyo how to be tops geisha, also let Chiyo evade from Hatusmomo's tyrannize. Two years later, Chiyo becomes a probationer, and her name becomes Sayuri. .
             Mameha helps Sayuri to make two important decisions, which pushes Sayuri to be a successful tops geisha. She sells Sayuri's virgin for a high price, the big bucks of money avails Sayuri to pay off her debt, and also forces mother to adopts Sayuri. After that Sayuri becomes the daughter of the geisha house, a place that Hatsumomo cannot hector anymore. Another decision is, Mameha finds a general as a sponsor to Sayuri in a militarism time. During the war, the general protects and supplies goods to Sayuri and her geisha house, lets her lives safety. .
             However, after the war end, the general loses the power and money, he cant be the sponsor anymore. And the chairman because of his best friend is wooing Sayuri, so he gives up her. In another side, Sayuri is still missing the chairman; she cant forget his kindness and encouragement. When Sayuri becomes nearly forty, she finally decides to tell the chairman how she feel, and renounces from the chairman's friend.