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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.