Ziyi Zhang Is Not Welcome

November 29th, 2005

NY Post reports that the movie Memoirs of a Geisha may not play well in Japan because the movie”s three lead roles are played by Chinese women - Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li and Michelle Yeoh. It may be even worse in China because the Chinese, still bitter over the Japanese occupation from 1931 to 1945, bristle at the idea of Chinese women playing geishas. A blogger in China said of Zhang:

"She”s sold her soul and betrayed her country. Hacking her to death would not be good enough."

Damn, she”s an actress. If, let”s say, Jessica Simpson plays a hooker in a movie, does it mean she”s really a hooker? Mmm, okay, that wasn”t the best example.

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