Memoirs of a Geisha vs The Best of Youth

The Best of Youth has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.7/10 for Memoirs of a Geisha). Memoirs of a Geisha is the shorter watch at 2h 26m compared with 6h 7m. The Best of Youth is the older of the two (2003 against 2005). Both are drama, history, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Memoirs of a Geisha posterMemoirs of a Geisha2005 VS The Best of Youth posterThe Best of Youth2003
Memoirs of a GeishaThe Best of Youth
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 8.1/10
Year20052003
Length2h 26m6h 7m
GenresDrama, History, RomanceDrama, History, Romance
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorRob MarshallMarco Tullio Giordana
Main castMako, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Tsai Chin, Youki KudohLuigi Lo Cascio, Jasmine Trinca, Andrea Tidona, Claudio Gioè, Riccardo Scamarcio

Synopsis

Memoirs of a Geisha

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

The Best of Youth

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

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