Do you think the movie "Gheisha" was as good as the book?

I Sthis the one Jerry Lewis plaed in?
If not not seen it nor read the book

I loved the book! It was amazing and I felt like I couldn't put it down! But I liked the new movie too. They did a very good job about keeping everything basically the same. I was very surprised at that fact. I still liked the book better but I usually do!:)

my hisband recently gave me the book. I have seen parts of the movie which only made me confused. I would love to hear more from those who have read and to those who have seen the movie and hear what their opinion are about this book .

I read the book first, a while after the movie came out. I loved it.
Then I watched the movie and I was just going "ugh" through the whole thing. I thought it was poorly done, and most of the actresses were obviously not japanese.

Yep, I read the book first after that saw the mowie! This is an awesome story, the beginning very tragic but the end is happy! I like Zhang Zi Yi and Ken Watanabe acting in this mowie:)

I loved the book, have read it over many times. I was leery about seeing the movie, because i usually wind up disapointed in movies when i have already read the book, but Memoirs was done very very well.

My biggest complaint though, is that they didn't spend hardly any time in the movie on the schooling that the girls have. I understand it is a movie and they have to move the plot along and keep the story going, but this was always my favorite part of the book. They had to learn many many rituals, the proper way of entertaining. It was so diciplined....and VERY interesting to read about. Just wish they could have gone into it a little more with the movie.