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kissy0560:
i really really liked the movie.

StupidityKills:
Wow I'm shocked to hear that they used Chinese actresses. That's so blatantley wrong!?
But I loved the book, if the film is half as beautifully shot as the book describes it'll be worth just seeing anyway.

zerofiftysix:
The first thing I noticed when I saw the trailer a few months ago was that it was Ziyi Zhang playing Sayuri (or Chiyo if you want to argue).  Maybe its because I'm an Asian boy but that was the first thing I noticed.  I was like, "WTF, she's totally Chinese."

Guys, you can't even believe how many times American (or non-Asian) movie productions use mismatched Asian actors in relation to each other.  Like sometimes a Korean actor would play a character who is a son of a Chinese guy, for example.

I understand the Japanese's anger towards this movie because its majorly ironic.

1.) Chinese actresses.  The girl that played Pumpkin was Japanese.  And the Chairman was Japanese - Ken Watanabe - He was in The Last Samuri (another ironic movie about Japan).

2.) They spoke English, even the old Japanese ladies.  We all know that the law of the universe is that old Asian ladies never ever, under any circumstances, speak English.  Ever.  At all. :-p

3.) The book was written by a Caucasian GUY.  About Asianic WOMEN.  To be fair, the guy had some sort of degree on Japanese studies or something something from Columbia or something something.  

But I did see the movie and I really liked it.  Purely from a "I-don't-care-about-those no-good-Japanese-protesting-I-just-wanna-see-this-goddamn-movie-and-eat-my-popcorn-with-my-date-and-maybe-a-little-macky-mack-later", I thought it was alright.  

I LOVED THE SOUNDTRACK.  I mean, I. Perlman and Yo Yo Ma and John Williams.  Can't get any better music.  You can't.

*References to Japanese Hate is totally meant to be funny.  I, in fact, heart Japanese people.  My mom, however, likes to despise them.  It's an Asian thing that I don't really understand.

mooface:

--- Quote from: zerofiftysix ---The book was written by a Caucasian GUY.  About Asianic WOMEN.
--- End quote ---


he did a scarily good job, though!  i didn't realize the author was a man until halfway through reading it when i began to wonder who the author was (because i was starting to become half-convinced it was an actual autobiography).  when i saw the name i was all "wtf?!" and it threw me off- i had to take a break from reading it, actually.

darkhorizons:
I read the book around 6 months ago and absolutely loved it, saw the movie the first day it came out.  I thought that it was really well-done, and the story was preserved through the book-to-film transition.  There were only a couple of problems.

-- The girl who played older-chiyo SUCKED.  Man, they could have cast her SO much better.  She was OBVIOUSLY Chinese.  And this is coming from a 15-year-old WHITE girl.  The way she said her lines was, for the most part, lacking the emotion needed.  I thought the girl who played little-chiyo did a MUCH better job.

-- Also, the woman narrating it (a supposedly older Sayuri) had a voice several tones deeper than the actor, so there was a lot of trouble realizing that, in fact, they were the same character.

I loved the other characters (esp Hatsumomo, Mameha).  They were v. true to the book and fit their roles WELL. Whoever the hell played the Chairman was excellent as well.

All in all, I loved the movie.  I cried twice...

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