Geisha films (E+J)

[Mark Nornes]

By the way, I saw Memories of a Geisha last night. For what it is,  
it's a nice film, entertaining film. Hardly the embarrassing piece of  
clap trap I expected. What I found interesting was the way it  
exemplified the conventional demands of both American and Japanese  
feature filmmaking---at that fateful moment when Sayuri loses all  
hope and stands on a mountain top overlooking the sea, you can't help  
thinking that if this were a Japanese film she would have walked into  
same ocean and ended it all, including the film.

Markus
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