The reviews for Memoirs of a Geisha are rolling in. The movie seems to be visually stunning, but devoid of any soul due to Hollywood's narrow world view and stereotypes of Asians in general. And then I find this load of Geisha crap. Talk about milking the Japanese cow for all that it is worth (and to no benefit of the Japanese farmers no less).

Of course, we'll most likeley see the movie. It was one of Hongyun's first English language books that she's read (twice now I think). I also have read and enjoyed the book, but now, I only fear the worst since the original story has been treated with such little respect by the Hollywood machine eager to make a buck in light of their profits sagging a couple percent lower (the industry is still a multi-billion dollar one so I'm not sure what they're crying about).