I finally got the Al Gore movie, an inconvinient truth and although I have not seen it yet I am curious about what I will think after watching the movie. Will my perception of things change and aim towards a green attitude to things or will I feel that I am already doing right?
I will let you know as soon as I have watched it!
Author Arthur Golden interviewed Iwasaki while researching for his novel Memoirs of a Geisha. He promised to maintain absolute confidentiality but he thanked her by name in the book's acknowledgements. Iwasaki felt betrayed by that mention to her name and also by the manipulation of her personal life.
For Iwasaki's association with Golden's inaccurate portrayal of the geisha world, she has been shunned in Gion Kobu and treated with hostility.
As a result Iwasaki sued Golden for breach of contract and defamation of character. Golden chose to settle out of court in February 2003.
She wrote her true story in Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki.
This entry was posted back in January 30, 2006.