Memoirs of a Geisha PG 13
Apparently, director Rob Marshall saw Mulan and thought, yeah, Geisha are Chinese, so he cast Chinese people as Geisha in his movie about Japanese courtesans’, Ughhh! Even so, it's a good flick, but there are still some times where it seems like they're American stereotypes of Geisha, not real ones, with darker motives, like having affairs, akin to say, prostitutes. This is wrong, as they were never meant as prostitutes. Review by Adam Browne
American audiences are often confused about this as they do think Disney movies are accurate, like Mulan, and that because they saw it in Shogun it must have been right. They didn't get that the earlier American traders and sailors were kind of scuzzy and would take advantage of hospitality girls on any continent.
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