

“A story like mine has never been told.”
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Director
Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$85,000,000
Revenue
$162,242,962
Chiyo
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Featurette
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just one woman.