Archive > October 2011

Maya the geisha girl

I think in the West there is a general misconception that Japan’s geisha are rather sordid, like high-class hookers, or at least that was the case until the film version of Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of A Geisha was released in 2005 (in which, interestingly, all the main female characters were played by Chinese actresses). Both [...]

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