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* IllGirl: Fukuya, another geisha, and one in the traditional mode of Kiju rather than Kimicho's glorified HighClassCallGirl. After she collapses in an early scene, she spends much of the rest of the movie in Kiju's home, flat on her back, dying of tuberculosis.
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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Some surprising {{Fanservice}} for 1951 Japan when Taeko finds Kimicho at a bathhouse, which is full of naked young women topless from the back.
* YourCheatingHeart: Multiple married men carrying on with geisha, as well as Mr. Isehama, who is both married and carrying on with two geisha at once, and trying to prevent the first geisha from finding out about the second.
* YourCheatingHeart: Multiple married men carrying on with geisha, as well as Mr. Isehama, who is both married and carrying on with two geisha at once, and trying to prevent the first geisha from finding out about the second.
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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Some surprising {{Fanservice}} for 1951 Japan when Taeko finds Kimicho at a bathhouse, which is full of naked young women topless from the back.
* YourCheatingHeart: Multiple married men carrying on with geisha, as well as Mr. Isehama, who is both married and carrying on with two geisha at once, and trying to prevent the first geisha from finding out about the second.back.
* YourCheatingHeart: Multiple married men carrying on with geisha, as well as Mr. Isehama, who is both married and carrying on with two geisha at once, and trying to prevent the first geisha from finding out about the second.
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* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: Kimicho is appalled when her mother mortgages their home to bail out Hideo, Mr. Watanabe's legitimate son and Kimicho's half-brother. While the Watanabe family is grateful, there's no suggestion they're going to pay her back, forcing Kimicho to hustle to find 200,000 yen to prevent losing their home.
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''Clothes of Deception'' is a 1951 film from Japan directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura.
It centers around two sisters in UsefulNotes/{{Kyoto}}. Kimicho (Creator/MachikoKyo) is a geisha. But while she dresses in kimonos and does the whole deal with dancing and conversation, she is ''really'' a HighClassCallGirl, with multiple clients instead of one patron, and a hard-nosed attitude about getting the money up front. Her sister Taeko is representative of the modern Japanese woman, as she wears Western-style clothes and works in an office.
Yet while Kimicho looks like old Japan and Takeo looks like forward-thinking, postwar Japan, the sisters tend to act like the reverse. Kimicho is scornful and disgusted when her mother Kiju, a far more traditional geisha, mortgages the house to bail her late patron Mr. Watanabe's son Hideo (also Kimicho's half-brother) out of a financial jam. Taeko for her part is in love with her co-worker Koji, but Koji's mother Chiyo categorically forbids the marriage.
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!!Tropes:
* AsYouKnow:
** Some dialogue in Chiyo's tea house between the residents confirms that not only is Chiyo herself a geisha, but years ago she and Kiju were rivals for Mr. Watanabe's patronage. Kiju won, which is why Chiyo hates her so much and why she refuses to sanction Koji's marriage to Taeko.
** Similar dialogue between women of the neighborhood, as Taeko whizzes by on a bicycle, confirms that Taeko works in a tourism office. Amusingly, one of the neighborhood women thinks it's "a waste" that Taeko didn't follow her family's tradition and become a geisha.
* BathtubScene: Taeko seeks out Kimicho and finds her in a communal bath house, which features a lot of ToplessnessFromTheBack women in a scene that was unusually racy for Japanese cinema of the era.
* CatFight: Chiyo, who lost Mr. Watanabe to Kiju a couple of decades ago, finds herself losing Mr. Isehama to younger, sexier Kimicho in the present. Her fury at this leads to a wild CatFight (including biting!) that Mr. Isehama has to break up.
* ChekhovsGunman: Mr. Yamashita, the pathetic loser who appears in the opening scene, where Kimicho is dumping him because he can't pay her anymore. The climax has a vengeful, deranged Yamashita show up at the theater and chase Kimicho with a knife.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the opening scene a desperate, pleading Yamashita begs for Kimicho's time and attention. She brusquely tells him that they are through, because he can't pay her anymore. She is established as a hard-nosed operator who is in it for the money, as opposed to the stereotypical delicate, feminine geisha.
* {{Geisha}}: Kimicho dresses like a geisha, and does the dancing to music and whatnot, but she's basically erased the distinction between geisha and HighClassCallGirl. Her mother Kiju is a more old-school geisha, who was the devoted mistress of Mr. Watanabe. She still feels loyalty towards and a duty to Mr. Watanabe's legitimate family, much to a cynical Kimicho's disgust.
* HighClassCallGirl: What Kimicho really is, even though she acts as a geisha. Her mother notes that she has multiple clients (sometimes more than one in a night!), while a traditional geisha would be TheMistress to a single patron. She is also much more frank about the real nature of her relationships with her clients. When one man hesitates about coming up with the money Kimicho needs to save her mother's house, Kimicho says "No sex for you!".
* IllGirl: Fukuya, another geisha, and one in the traditional mode of Kiju rather than Kimicho's glorified HighClassCallGirl. After she collapses in an early scene, she spends much of the rest of the movie in Kiju's home, flat on her back, dying of tuberculosis.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Fukuya coughs in her first scene in Kiju's home. Sure enough, soon after she collapses. It turns out she's in the final stages of tuberculosis.
* MommasBoy: Koji, who loves Taeko, but is basically a wimp. He quails before his forbidding mother Chiyo when Chiyo forbids the marriage, and shamefacedly breaks up with Taeko.
* OpenDoorOpening: The film opens with Kimicho throwing open a curtain and window to the outside. Unlike most examples of this trope Kimicho is on the same side of the opening as the camera.
* StealingFromTheTill: Apparently a chronic problem. A desperate Hideo goes to Kiju for help after workers at his business embezzled from him and left him on the brink of ruin. And towards the end Yamashita reveals to Kimicho that he was fired from his job for stealing from the till, having stolen hundreds of thousands of yen to pay her.
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Some surprising {{Fanservice}} for 1951 Japan when Taeko finds Kimicho at a bathhouse, which is full of naked young women topless from the back.
* YourCheatingHeart: Multiple married men carrying on with geisha, as well as Mr. Isehama, who is both married and carrying on with two geisha at once, and trying to prevent the first geisha from finding out about the second.
It centers around two sisters in UsefulNotes/{{Kyoto}}. Kimicho (Creator/MachikoKyo) is a geisha. But while she dresses in kimonos and does the whole deal with dancing and conversation, she is ''really'' a HighClassCallGirl, with multiple clients instead of one patron, and a hard-nosed attitude about getting the money up front. Her sister Taeko is representative of the modern Japanese woman, as she wears Western-style clothes and works in an office.
Yet while Kimicho looks like old Japan and Takeo looks like forward-thinking, postwar Japan, the sisters tend to act like the reverse. Kimicho is scornful and disgusted when her mother Kiju, a far more traditional geisha, mortgages the house to bail her late patron Mr. Watanabe's son Hideo (also Kimicho's half-brother) out of a financial jam. Taeko for her part is in love with her co-worker Koji, but Koji's mother Chiyo categorically forbids the marriage.
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!!Tropes:
* AsYouKnow:
** Some dialogue in Chiyo's tea house between the residents confirms that not only is Chiyo herself a geisha, but years ago she and Kiju were rivals for Mr. Watanabe's patronage. Kiju won, which is why Chiyo hates her so much and why she refuses to sanction Koji's marriage to Taeko.
** Similar dialogue between women of the neighborhood, as Taeko whizzes by on a bicycle, confirms that Taeko works in a tourism office. Amusingly, one of the neighborhood women thinks it's "a waste" that Taeko didn't follow her family's tradition and become a geisha.
* BathtubScene: Taeko seeks out Kimicho and finds her in a communal bath house, which features a lot of ToplessnessFromTheBack women in a scene that was unusually racy for Japanese cinema of the era.
* CatFight: Chiyo, who lost Mr. Watanabe to Kiju a couple of decades ago, finds herself losing Mr. Isehama to younger, sexier Kimicho in the present. Her fury at this leads to a wild CatFight (including biting!) that Mr. Isehama has to break up.
* ChekhovsGunman: Mr. Yamashita, the pathetic loser who appears in the opening scene, where Kimicho is dumping him because he can't pay her anymore. The climax has a vengeful, deranged Yamashita show up at the theater and chase Kimicho with a knife.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the opening scene a desperate, pleading Yamashita begs for Kimicho's time and attention. She brusquely tells him that they are through, because he can't pay her anymore. She is established as a hard-nosed operator who is in it for the money, as opposed to the stereotypical delicate, feminine geisha.
* {{Geisha}}: Kimicho dresses like a geisha, and does the dancing to music and whatnot, but she's basically erased the distinction between geisha and HighClassCallGirl. Her mother Kiju is a more old-school geisha, who was the devoted mistress of Mr. Watanabe. She still feels loyalty towards and a duty to Mr. Watanabe's legitimate family, much to a cynical Kimicho's disgust.
* HighClassCallGirl: What Kimicho really is, even though she acts as a geisha. Her mother notes that she has multiple clients (sometimes more than one in a night!), while a traditional geisha would be TheMistress to a single patron. She is also much more frank about the real nature of her relationships with her clients. When one man hesitates about coming up with the money Kimicho needs to save her mother's house, Kimicho says "No sex for you!".
* IllGirl: Fukuya, another geisha, and one in the traditional mode of Kiju rather than Kimicho's glorified HighClassCallGirl. After she collapses in an early scene, she spends much of the rest of the movie in Kiju's home, flat on her back, dying of tuberculosis.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Fukuya coughs in her first scene in Kiju's home. Sure enough, soon after she collapses. It turns out she's in the final stages of tuberculosis.
* MommasBoy: Koji, who loves Taeko, but is basically a wimp. He quails before his forbidding mother Chiyo when Chiyo forbids the marriage, and shamefacedly breaks up with Taeko.
* OpenDoorOpening: The film opens with Kimicho throwing open a curtain and window to the outside. Unlike most examples of this trope Kimicho is on the same side of the opening as the camera.
* StealingFromTheTill: Apparently a chronic problem. A desperate Hideo goes to Kiju for help after workers at his business embezzled from him and left him on the brink of ruin. And towards the end Yamashita reveals to Kimicho that he was fired from his job for stealing from the till, having stolen hundreds of thousands of yen to pay her.
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Some surprising {{Fanservice}} for 1951 Japan when Taeko finds Kimicho at a bathhouse, which is full of naked young women topless from the back.
* YourCheatingHeart: Multiple married men carrying on with geisha, as well as Mr. Isehama, who is both married and carrying on with two geisha at once, and trying to prevent the first geisha from finding out about the second.
