Anyone else looking forward to seeing "Memoirs of a Geisha"?

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Loved the book. Hope the film lives up to it.

Sounds like it could be a kimono/bodice ripper?

ooooh yes, absolutely!

Ooh! Will definately look out for the book and the film then! Who's the author?

was looking forward to it..but i disagree to zhang zhiyi as sayuri....i'm sure it'll be brilliant tho...but the book was simply amazing

can't wait. shame it's not been filmed in Japan though.

no film is shite appretnyl

I must be the only person in the world who didn't like the book - felt so disappointed at the end because it was fiction and had made out it was biography all the way through. Won't be rushing to see the film.

Oh bum, I liked the book, maybe I won't waste a night out on the film if its poo

found the book compelling reading - especially as i read it in the US after a visit to Japan... look forward to the film - am sure I will be disappointed as I generally am with books I have read that are then made into films.

written by American man, Arthur Golden
3 main roles are all non japanese - the director/producer(Rob Marshall?) avoided answering the question as to why he didn't cast a Japanese actress for these roles, he was rather rude to interviewer on Radio 4 the otehr day!
am also looking forward to it

no offence to any chinese here, but chinese is chinese, so they will never make geisha.
so sadly, not very good film. if read the book and loved it it will disappoint you
all fake

that's what i'd suspected, DM. too bad. but nah, that was one of those books that would be very, very hard to make into a film, IMO.

Why is it so fake? Americans play brits, brits play american and germans etc etc. Why can only japanise play japanise?

some of the actresses have said it's prefectly normal for Asians to play Asians from other countries - just like Brits play Americans, or French, or Germans - and vice versa. I can't see the problem. And I really want to see the film too.

I can't see the problem with the actresses they've chosen for the roles either.

I mean, no one batted an eyelid when Liam Neeson was picked to play Oscar Schindler did they?

They are actresses - it's all 'make-believe' anyway.

i don't have a problem with the casting, just what I had heard on the radio

I agree, it's the best actor for the job regardless of where they are from

I'm about a third of the way through the book and enjoying it at the moment. I'd like to see the film, but it's not dp's thing.

Maybe I need my ears syringed (another thread has got me thinking) because I could hardly understand any of the dialogue. 'Mother', for eg -- no idea what she was on about.
There was something very flat about the film, very uninvolving, though it looked gorgeous. The book was a far better read than this was a watch IYSWIM