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This paper aims to develop a postcolonial interpretation on the Hollywood film Memoirs of a Ceisha in terms of the concepts of postcolonialism including “orientalism”, “postcolonial feminism” and “narrative cinema”. The results of the investigation are summarized as the following. First of all, the Hollywood film Memoirs of a Ceisha is the representative cultural product of orientalism which reveals a characteristic of postcolonialism. The paper also argues that the Hollywood film Memoirs of a Ceisha is produced through the vision of Western imperialism and colonialism. Thus, the Hollywood film Memoirs of a Ceisha is a prominent ‘narrative cinema' that is based on the hegemony of Man’s vision be connected with the ‘visual’. Finally, it is claimed that the Hollywood film Memoirs of a Ceisha reveals a characteristic of postcolonial feminism, that is, the feminization of postcolonialism.