<P> In 2005 , film director Rob Marshall made a film version of the novel . It stars the Chinese actresses Zhang Ziyi as Sayuri , Gong Li as Hatsumomo , and Michelle Yeoh as Mameha ; and Japanese actors Ken Watanabe as the Chairman , Suzuka Ohgo as Sayuri 's childhood incarnation Chiyo , and Youki Kudoh as the adult Pumpkin . </P>
<P> In 2005 , film director Rob Marshall made a film version of the novel . It stars the Chinese actresses Zhang Ziyi as Sayuri , Gong Li as Hatsumomo , and Michelle Yeoh as Mameha ; and Japanese actors Ken Watanabe as the Chairman , Suzuka Ohgo as Sayuri 's childhood incarnation Chiyo , and Youki Kudoh as the adult Pumpkin . </P>
who plays the chairman in memoirs of a geisha
who plays the chairman in memoirs of a geisha
Ken Watanabe
Ken Watanabe