"A story like mine should never be told, for my world is as forbidden as it is fragile, without its mystery, it cannot survive. I certainly wasn't born into the life of a Geisha... like so much in my strange life, I was carried there by the current... "-Sayuri Nitta Sayuri is the main protagonist in both the 1997 book and 2006 film Memoirs Of A Geisha. She is portrayed by Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi "The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains..."-Sayuri