I just saw the film. It was not excellent but not bad, actually it was good considering it was made by Americans. It was indeed made from American perspective but thoroughly desriptive about Japanese personality and culture. The story was based on memoirs of a former military officer who did research on the emperor's responsibility for the second world war. He interviewed with former politicians, military officers, and servants for the emperor to learn about what Emperor actually did before the war and end of the war. He also tried to find where his loved Japanese woman was. One of...
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03 July 2013
Entertained by a male Geisha
Did you know there are male Geishas in Japan? Geisha usually means female escorts in kimono. But there is male version of it. Men in kimono entertain guests in the tea houses or Japanese style restaurants. They are called "Taikomochi" or "Hokan" in Japanese. Last month I went to the lunch show of a male Geisha in Kagurazaka district in Tokyo. The Geisha name is Yugenteitamahachi....
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