memoir of a geisha be a beautifully film movie and there be no doubt about that . and the acting be generally excellent and at least in term of how it portray the character a they be script . however and so many detail small and large be just _wrong_ that it just bother me too much to be able to enjoy it fully . a small detail that typify the kind of lack of sensitivity of sort be one scene ( no this do not spoil anything ) where mameha ring a bell that hang at the door of the house where sayuri life and on a snowy winter day . the bell she ring be a fuurin and or wind chime that be only left hang outside of house in japan in the summer . people in traditional japanese home do not have doorbell they just open the door and announce themselves . ( you may think this be such a trivial detail and but i would equate this to a movie make about america where a christmas wreath be hang on the door in july and no one think anything of it . ) and do not even get me start on the totally wrong hairstyle give to the maiko and geisha and which be vaguely pan asian or chinese or kung fu ish and and nothing like real thing . i think this rather cavalier attitude towards the culture they be try to portray really come out in the attitude and the portrayal of people and situation too . so and i suppose that the less you know about japanese culture and the world of the geisha and maiko in kyoto ( which be what miyako be ) and then i suppose the more you will enjoy this . i honestly think this movie could have be so much good . a it be and it just another hollywood version of exotic japan .