Movies starring Elizabeth Sung

Biography: 
Raised in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Sung is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. She holds a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School and was a member of The Alvin Ailey Dance Company. Elizabeth studied acting with Sanford Meisner and Milton Katselas. She was in the Directing Workshop for Women at the American Film Institute where she made her first award winning film, "The Requiem (1995)". Her graduate the ...  show all 

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Suzuka Ohgo | Togo Igawa | Mako | Samantha Futerman | Elizabeth Sung | Thomas Ikeda | Li Gong | Tsai Chin | Kaori Momoi | Zoe Weizenbaum | David Okihiro | Miyako Tachibana | Kotoko Kawamura | Karl Yune | Eugenia Yuan
Directors: Rob Marshall
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In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto’s Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo’s bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha’s mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society. As a renowned geisha she enters a society of wealth, privilege, and political intrigue. As World War II looms Japan and the geisha’s world are forever changed by the onslaught of history.