They all look the same...

Mon Aug 30 11:54:06 EDT 2004

Not entirely on topic, but I suspect there is a feeling amongst certain Hollywood producers that setting movies in Japan is currently in vogue, given the publicity surrounding Lost in Translation and The Last Samurai, and Sam Raimi's decision to shoot The Grudge in Japan.

Incidentally, whenever I hear that Americans are planning to make a movie about Geishas, I'm reminded of the awful Shirley Maclaine vehicle My Geisha. I hope Memoirs is better than that one.

Jim Harper.

Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu> wrote:

On Aug 30, 2004, at 5:58 PM, Alex Zahlten wrote:

 As Mark says, this is still pretty 
surprising after the Last Samurai's success in Japan with iconographies 
of tradition.

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