She lost to Japan's Kaori Matsumoto - who went on to reach the semi-finals - but the new competition format did not allow her a second-chance fight with a chance of a bronze medal.
In 1929, a country girl, Chiyo, is sold into bondage at a Kyoto training house for geishas, a house ruled by the foul-tempered Mother (Kaori Momoi) and a nasty top geisha, Hatsumomo (Gong Li) the equivalents of a wicked step-mother and stepsister.