Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.

Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.

In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo.