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    Posted: March 04 2006 at 3:02pm

Has anyone seen this?

I know it wasn't all real but wasn't Hatsumomo's(Gong Li) hair the most amazing hair you've ever seen? Knee length , straight and black. It looked sooo striking. I wish I could get screencaps.



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Yes, HFO, I've seen the movie. I thought her hair was beautiful also!
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I loved her hair (and her), I think she was even more beautifull than the girl, i've forgotten her name.. 
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Originally posted by Vicky Vicky wrote:

I loved her hair (and her), I think she was even more beautifull than the girl, i've forgotten her name.. 

Sayuri? She was played by ZiYi Zhang. I think she was more beautiful too but a psycho!

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I've read the book but I didn't get round to seeing the film. Was it good? Must go and search pictures of it now!

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Hatsumomo(Gong Li) burning down the house.

After she burnt down the house.



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I haven't seen the movie yet, I've always been fasinated with geisha
hairstyles. Here are some more good pics from the movie

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I know this sounds dumb but....I wish I was asian.

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I want to be Asian too! Gong Li is 41!! Now that is sooo not fair to look so good at that age!
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I can hardly believe that, she looks so great. Both she and Ziyi Zhang are
beautiful actresses.
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They really are gorgeous! *Thud* 

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::sigh::: Whee!

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My best friend years ago was Japanese. He was 24 and had grown hair from shoulder to waist in a year.

He was also 130 pounds and all of our other Japanese friends thought he was "fat".

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Beautiful hair, but no geisha would ever wear her hair down in public.

Was anyone else annoyed that they got Chinese actresses to play Japanese
women? Why not Japanese actresses?
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YES, that was so weird. I noticed it right away....wasn't the lead actress the one from crouching tiger? Or house of flying daggers? My friend and I talked about that after the movie - we were sort of disturbed that they didn't cast Japanese actresses......
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Well, Hollywood doesn't always use Germans to play Nazis in WW2 movies.
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Yeah but Japanese and Chinese have completely different characteristics. That said, I think they did a brilliant job of making Gong Li look Japanese. She didn't look out of place.
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I would have like to have seen Chiaki Kuriyama (the actress that played
lucy liu's little minon girl in Kill Bill vol. 1) play the main character instead
of Ziyi Zhang.

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Anyway, back to the hair...I wonder how long Gong Li's hair really is and
how much of that length is extensions.
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