Clothes of Deception
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
Machiko Kyō
Kimicho
Yasuko Fujita
Taeko
Keiju Kobayashi
Kōji
Ichirō Sugai
Yamashita
Eitarō Shindō
Isehama
Seizaburō Kawazu
Watanabe
Chieko Murata
Chiyo
Emiko Yanagi
Fukuya
Hisako Takihana
Kiku
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes this, thinking that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them.
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.
A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.