author arthur golden did an interview to her and used her as inspiration for his book "memoirs of a geisha", that was later made a movie. iwasaki later said that the book was full of lies, and that nothing that golden said ever happened to her. she put a lawsuit against golden for this, and they solved it out of court in 2003. after the publication of "memoirs of a geisha", iwasaki wrote her autobiography, "geisha, a life".