Memoirs of a Geisha — Film Location
Rob Marshall’s Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) filmed among the temples of Kyoto, including the great wooden terrace of Kiyomizu-dera and the vermilion torii of Fushimi Inari. The thirteenth-century Buddhist temple, whose stage juts over the hillside on enormous timber pillars, gave the film its image of an older, ceremonial Japan.
Filming location: quick answers
Where was Memoirs of a Geisha filmed?
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) filmed among the temples of Kyoto, Japan, including the great wooden terrace of Kiyomizu-dera and the vermilion torii of Fushimi Inari.
Which Kyoto temples appear in Memoirs of a Geisha?
Kiyomizu-dera — whose stage juts over the hillside on enormous timber pillars — and the torii gates of Fushimi Inari, giving the film its image of an older, ceremonial Japan.
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