Swapping jazzy killers for bejeweled kimonos, Chicago director Rob Marshall gets kudos for agreeing to mastermind a chorus line of Asian-language stars — led by Ziyi Zhang as geisha-in-training Sayuri — in this adaptation of Arthur Golden's best-selling 1997 novel.
(For a full preview of December films, check out Entertainment Weekly's Holiday Movies issue, out in November 2005.)
