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While the New York Times says Memoirs of a Geisha is still "awaiting approval" by China's censors and that "[g]overnment officials have denied considering a ban," at least one site -- Ireland On-line, of all places -- is reporting that a ban has indeed been put in place:
New movie Memoirs of a Geisha has been banned in China amid fears it will encourage widespread anti-Japanese ideologies.The casting of Chinese actresses Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li in the Japanese drama has already caused outrage in China -- because many regard geishas as prostitutes.
Bravo, Chinese censors! We don't know what we would do if anti-Japanese ideologies ever became widespread here in China. That would just be awful.
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Ooooh, just imagine the horror in China if Chinese audiences actually empathise with Sayuri. Wouldn't that be terrible.
I can just here the cries now "A Japanese with feeling and emotions!! Wow, I never knew that there was such a thing"
You know the movie sucked and China is not missing much.
Is the film the Last Emperor banned?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093389/
The movie can be viewed in most big cinemas in Chengdu Sichuan.
Or, at least there is advertisement at the cinema for the film beside the other movie posters...