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• Marshall Defends Controversial 'Geisha' Casting Decision .
• "The dances are not just action; they are stories from our history, and you have to know that history to express it," says Koito, a retired geisha who owns the "okiya" and watches over Komomo with a mentor's possession. ... " Bottling the Japanese essence is the challenge facing American film director Rob Marshall and producer Steven Spielberg as they try to bring Arthur Golden's best-selling 1997 novel, "Memoirs of a Geisha," alive on screen. ... But long before audiences have even seen a trailer, "Memoirs" has generated an underground controversy over the director's decision to cast non-Japanese actresses in the three leading geisha parts. From the opaque alleys of Kyoto's geisha districts to Internet movie chat rooms and the cast of the movie itself, the decision has created unease over what kind of footprint Hollywood will leave on this iconic element of traditional Japanese culture. Declaring that "my only criteria was who's the best person for the role," Marshall chose China's Ziyi Zhang ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") to play Sayuri, the fictional Japanese girl snatched from her humble fishing village and taken to a Kyoto "okiya" where she becomes the most celebrated geisha of the 1930s. ... By using Chinese actors in quintessential Japanese roles, has Marshall become the Quiet American director, an innocent abroad, shaving the edges off human diversity to produce an imagined Japan for an American audience that doesn't know the real thing? Or is it a progressive act, as Marshall says, nothing more sinister than hiring the best-qualified actors, regardless of ethnicity, to do what actors do: act? "Geisha is a part of Japan's eternal culture," leading Chinese director Chen Kaige ("Farewell, My Concubine") said at a symposium on Asian values at Japan's Kobe University last November. ... " "I'm not doing a documentary of the geisha world -- this is a fable," the director says. ... " "Memoirs of a Geisha" is set during the 1930s imperial period in Japan, when Japanese troops were marauding across Asia, conscripting tens of thousands of Chinese and Korean men into slave labor and forcing "comfort women" to provide sex to Japanese soldiers. ...
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• Complete disrespect and disregard for Japanese and the uniqueness of Geisha. I have been to Kyoto's Geisha district and it is a beautiful city. I have also seen Geisha ladies and they are beautiful, graceful and very formal. It is an insult to cast non-Japanese in a movie about Geisha. ...
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• First "Memoirs of a Geisha" Photos.
• Shooting only recently began on the long-awaited adaptation of Arthur Golden's epic love story "Memoirs of a Geisha" but already the first three photos have emerged from the production over at Blackfilm. ...

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• Chinese superstar Gong Li "Memoirs of a Geisha" is seemingly more in-demand at the moment, especially by Hollywood, than half-price Pet Food on Pay Day. ...

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