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Clothes of Deception: Directed by Kôzaburô Yoshimura. With Machiko Kyô, Yasuko Fujita, Keiju Kobayashi, Emiko Yanagi. The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
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- Drama
- Kôzaburô Yoshimura
- 1951-01-13
May 4, 2017 · In 1951 Yoshimura had approached Daiei in order to realise – again from Shindo’s script – his outstanding study of women in Kyoto’s Gion district, Clothes of Deception (Itsuwareru seiso).
Oct 26, 2017 · East/West, past/future becomes a conflict between Kyoto and Tokyo in Yoshimura’s exploration of two women pulled in surprisingly contradictory directions in the new post-war world, Clothes of Deception (偽れる盛装, Itsuwareru Seiso).
Machiko Kyo gave a tour-de-force performance as Kumicho, an unflinchingly manipulative, yet inherently tender geisha in Kozaburo Yoshimura‘s post-war melodrama Clothes of Deception.
- Kōzaburō Yoshimura
- Daiei Film
One of Yoshimura’s masterpieces, this searing account of female experience in post-war Kyoto dramatises the conflict between old and new through the experiences of two sisters, one a geisha in the Gion district, the other employed by the tourist board.
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.
Apr 1, 2022 · The interest and complexity of Yoshimura Kozaburo's Itsuwareru seiso lies in the way in which it presents the geisha system as one facet of female experience in Kyoto, juxtaposing a geisha with a “respectable” working woman. Clothes of Deception marked a turning point in Yoshimura's career.
