"This end title sequence finishes the tone for this sweeping, romantic epic, Memoirs of a Geisha. It is built around the dance of light on water, and reflections that play on that surface, a metaphor for the title character looking back on her life. At first the reflections are abstract, but soon the waves of color resolve into the pattern of a kimono, the traditional identifying attire of the geisha. Images of the film's actors ripple on and off with the waves, like memories passing through the mind of the geisha."
