Continuity mistake: When young Pumpkin and young Chiyo are on the way to geisha school together, Pumpkin takes a roasted squid from the road under a cart with her right hand. In the next shot, she eats the squid with her left hand. (00:15:30)
Continuity mistake: When Mother and Mameha are waiting for the bid on Sayuri's mizuage, Mother's cigarette is short at one point, but becomes longer in the next shot.
Continuity mistake: From time to time Chiyos/Sayuri's eye color changes between blue and brown.
Continuity mistake: When Hatsumomo comes outside to meet Sayuri for the first time she has nothing in her left hand. She then bends down and now has a short lit cigarette in her left hand.
