THE release this month of Rob Marshall’s movie “Memoirs of a Geisha,” based on Arthur Golden’s bestselling 1997 novel, is inspiring tours and hotel packages in Kyoto, Japan, where Golden’s heroine ...

If films still aspire to visual art, Memoirs of a Geisha belongs in a museum. Director Rob Marshall proves that the talent he displayed in Chicago for telling a story rich in detail with clarity, ...

For years, marketers have struggled to translate the fantasy power of their films into sales at fashionable boutiques and department stores. They’ve sanctioned vivid yellow overcoats from “Dick Tracy, ...

A number of national retailers, most notably Banana Republic, are already selling merchandise tied in to the Sony Pictures movie "Memoirs of a Geisha," which debuts this weekend. But what ...