Gong Li credited as playing...
Hatsumomo
- Hatsumomo: [entertaining at the teahouse] Sayuri. A name as sweet as she is. I'm afraid these days even the common chambermaid can call herself a geisha. So, it's nice to see such a sincere young maiko, isn't it?
- Mameha: [to Sayuri] Surely you would like to thank Hatsumomo for her gracious compliments.
- Sayuri Nitta: [serving tea] There is so much I would like to say to Hatsumomo.
- Hatsumomo: [laughing] Sometimes the smartest remark is silence
- Sayuri Nitta: What better advise to follow than your own.
- Hatsumomo: I was a maiko once.
- Sayuri Nitta: Oh, of course. But that was a long, long, long, *long* time ago.
- Hatsumomo: [suggesting that Mameha used immoral methods to gain Sayuri the lead role in the dances] What did Mameha do, speak with the Director in *private*?
- Sayuri Nitta: Not *all* geisha use that kind of currency.
- Hatsumomo: How much longer is this bidding going to take? Beside who wants a plum when someone has already had a bite?
- [takes a bite out of the plum]
- Sayuri Nitta: I am so far behind...
- Pumpkin: Don't worry I'll help you.
- [laughs]
- Hatsumomo: Pumpkin!
- [strikes her]
- Hatsumomo: You are never to talk to her again. We are rivals now.