Movie: Memoirs of a Geisha

Breaktaking cinematography, yes. Powerful performances by well-known and lesser-known Asian actresses, yes. Surprising consistency between character as played by young girl and as played by grown woman, yes. Presence of the marvelous Ken Watanabe, yes.

(yes oh yes)

er, sorry

Ending of movie where lovers finally fall into each other's arms, yes... for 4-5 seconds until the brain catches up: it's because he chose her to be a geisha based on their brief encounter when she was only nine years old for pete's sake... Ending of movie, no, not so much.

PS: The venerable Mako is in this, like he's been in everything Asian for approximately 14 generations. Honestly he's got to be 400 years old (okay maybe 70-something), plus for the last 15 years he's had to carry every role that Keye Luke would have done too. And he still rocks.