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      <td>the trouble with the book, " memoirs of a geisha " is that it had japanese surfaces but underneath the surfaces it was all an american man's way of thinking. reading the book is like watching a magnificent ballet with great music, sets, and costumes yet performed by barnyard animals dressed in those costumesso far from japanese ways of thinking were the characters. &lt; br / &gt; &lt; br / &gt; the movie isn't about japan or real geisha. it is a story about a few american men's