She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water.

Just watched Memoirs of a Geisha today with team fong and JY, a sort of agreement made during one of those late night studio seesions when we were bored and got memerized by the trailer on the apple.com website.

The movie is amazing. Despite it being a Japanese profession, written by a American and played by mostly Chinese speaking in heavily accented english, IT STILL IS A GOOD MOVIE! No, they didn't follow the book page for page, in fact they did miss out alot but guess it would have been at least 5 hours if they didn't cut it short. A beautiful tragic story and more.

The sets were splendid, the music stirs up ones emotions and the actors are simply amazing. Gong Li played Hatsumomo so well you actually want to hate her, Ken Watanabe is Japan's better answer to Chow Yun Fatt and Zhang Ziyi, whom I usually don't really support didn't do too bad either. BUT THE BEST ACTRESS should go to Suzuka Ohgo, who played the young Chiyo. I can foresee her in many a good heart wrenching movie.

Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo) meets Chairman (Ken Watanabe, not in picture)
on the bridge for the first time.

Suzuka Ohgo in real life. Wah!

Please go watch it on the big screen. Downloading it or getting your lousy JB copy just doesn't do such a good film justice.It's so damn good I really don't mind watching it for the second time again. Anyone? I want to watch the part where Chiyo (before she becomes Sayuri) runs into the temple to wish that one day she becomes a Geisha, all because she met a Mr nice guy aka the Chairman who treats her shaved Ice and asks her "Do you like sweet plum or cherry?". Nice

The best scene of all