Comments on: Memoirs of a Geisha: If it isn’t one inauthenticity, it’s the other

By: Mutantfrog Travelogue » Blog Archive » Required Movies for American Japan Watchers

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:29:05 +0000

[...] The recent double threat of Lost in Translation and Last Samurai (but not the dud Memoirs of a Geisha), like some other popular Japan-themed films, were all good, entertaining movies, but I never felt like any of them gave me much insight on my experiences in Japan. As an alternative, I present my picks, in descending order of how highly I recommend them, that weren’t necessarily the best-made or most purely entertaining, but nonetheless got me thinking about the US-Japan relationship or the experiences I had while I was (ostensibly) studying there: [...]

By: Frog in a Well - The Korea History Group Blog

Frog in a Well - The Korea History Group Blog — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:10:28 +0000

[...] Do we have to talk about TV biopics of John Paul II, the “medieval appeal” of Harry Potter (isn’t it enough we work in the last bastion of medievalism in the modern world?), Memoirs of a Geisha, Mel Gibson projects, and ninja? [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:55:40 +0000

Here’s an interesting take:

“The life of the geisha is something foreign to most modern Japanese, anyway, so it doesn’t matter if Chinese or Japanese play the roles,” said moviegoer Yuriko Ozawa. “I think the story line is very simple, and women especially will like it.”

http://www.suntimes.com/output/movies/sho-sunday-geisha04.html

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 04:45:00 +0000

Well, he was responding to a WP article about “a skeptical Japan” ...

By: Curzon

Curzon — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 04:32:02 +0000

Barnett was of course too ignorant to consider that the people who are really pissed about this are the Chinese, not the Japanese.