bingo26

I loved the book! now it's going to be out on the big screen! I always like historical stuff!

Here's a preview on what is to happen, hope the movie doesn't differ too much from the book:

It starts in a remote Japanese fishing village in 1929, where two sisters, Chiyo and Satsu, are sold by their troubled father to people who place Chiyo in a classy geisha house known as an okiya in Gion and Satsu in a much more vulgar and dangerous district.

Poor Chiyo becomes a maid to Hatsumomo, a mean, controlling, and calculating geisha who is instantly jealous of Chiyo's unusual, beautiful eyes and childish innocence.

Chiyo is befriended by Pumpkin, another maid at the okiya, but the two are soon forced to separate. The Chairman and another, more successful geisha, Mameha, liked and favoured Chiyo and takes her under her wing as her "little sister," furthering the battle between Chiyo, now called Sayuri, and Hatsumomo.

As Sayuri is trained in the art of being a geisha, learning how to walk, talk, dance, and serve in order to please and honor her distinguished male clients, World War II looms on the horizon, threatening to upend Japan and its old ways.

Cool huh?

mrBiggles

Never heard of it, but they do bend historic facts in movies.
But that makes it all the more interesting

janecek

Something to bring back the horrors of war...
It pains me to even think because this would cause stur ups on what Japan did in Asia all over again.

meatloaf

I didn't want to see it, I thought it looked horrible, but your description actually makes it sound kind of good. You have to admit, the previews make it look really bad. I guess you just have to know the background to really appreciate it.