Weird Oriental Brontë references

Sometimes Brontë references come by waves. We have found recently some different ones in relation with the Far East (at least Far from the Brontës' Yorkshire) and we thought it would be best to group them in a single post:

Some days ago we found in the news a strange reference to Anne Brontë in filipino news. But we have found another, even weirdest Brontë-connection with the Philippines. The Wuthering Heights Beach Resort in Negros Oriental, San José, Philippines.

Wuthering Heights of San José is the perfect place to experience nature at its best. After a 15-minute-drive from Dumaguete Airport. Wuthering Heights brings you to a paradise by the sea. Its naturally-crafted stone caves is your gateway to great diving along the shores of the Tañon Strait.

We hardly can imagine nothing so radically different to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights than a paradisiacal beach resort in the Far East.

We jump now from the Philippines to continental China. Here we find a Jane Eyre café in Jishan Road, Lijiang (known as the Venice of the East), Yunnan. The picture has been taken from Virtual Tourist. Of course, we don't forget the theatrical Jane Eyre in Shanghai.

And we finally finish our trip in Japan. Here Wuthering Heights is used as a sort of cliché of passionated love in this review of Eiji Ouda's last film "Runin: Banished"

Runin, a film based on actual events about two lovers who try to escape from their banishment on a desolate island in medieval Japan, subscribes to the Wuthering Heights school of romance. There, true love, which by definition should thumb its nose at social convention, is embodied in the harsh, tumultuous landscape, the lovers becoming as passionately raw as the stormy terrain that surrounds them.

And we don't forget the film Memoirs of a Geisha which has been recently compared in many reviews with none other than Jane Eyre.

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