Clothes of Deception (1950)
Original title: 偽れる盛装
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Clothes of Deception initiated Yoshimura’s most characteristic vein. This geisha story is often described as a loose remake of Mizoguchi’s pre-war masterpiece Sisters of Gion (1936), but this is inexact. Whereas in Mizoguchi’s study of two sisters, both women had been geisha, in Yoshimura’s film only Kimicho (Kyo Machiko) is, while her sister works in the Kyoto tourist office. Juxtaposing a traditional Kyoto profession with a modern one, Yoshimura shows how life in the old capital was changing in the wake of wider transformations in Japanese society.
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Machiko Kyō
Yasuko FujitaTaeko
Keiju KobayashiKōji
Ichirō SugaiYamashitaEmiko Yanagi
Seizaburō KawazuWatanabeTaeko KitakouchiChigusa Maki
Chieko MurataChiyo
Eitarō Shindō
Hisako Takihana
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What is Clothes of Deception about?
Clothes of Deception initiated Yoshimura’s most characteristic vein. This geisha story is often described as a loose remake of Mizoguchi’s pre-war masterpiece Sisters of Gion (1936), but this is inexact. Whereas in Mizoguchi’s study of two sisters, both women had been geisha, in Yoshimura’s film only Kimicho (Kyo Machiko) is, while her sister works in the Kyoto tourist office. Juxtaposing a traditional Kyoto profession with a modern one, Yoshimura shows how life in the old capital was changing in the wake of wider transformations in Japanese society.
How long is Clothes of Deception?
Clothes of Deception has a runtime of 102 minutes.