Last night, Hongyun and I went to dinner in Mountain View. We had some overpriced but pretty good sushi at Tomi Sushi. Before dinner however, we walked around town and looked at some books. We noticed there was a book showing scenes and behind the scenes for the new Memoirs of a Geisha movie coming in December. We were going to get the book, but it was something like $40! Outrageous. Hongyun wants it for reference for her artwork so we turn to our old buddy Amazon.com which has it for $26 with free shipping and of course no sales tax.

I'm sort of looking forward to the movie because Gong Li is going to be in it as well as Hatsumono (perfect for her), but I always end up back to original point. Regardless of how I feel about the ethics behind the casting, I know the story is good and I hope the execution and acting lives up to Golden's classic.