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27 October 2001 (Japan) morePlot:
Mary (17) and Atsushi (20) elope and come to live in Tokyo from a nearby city. Soon after running out of money... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Disturbing but insightful moreCast
(Credited cast) | Miku Matsumoto | ... | Mari |
| Hideo Nakaizumi | ... | Atsushi |
| Yuka Fujimoto | ... | Kana |
| Akihito Yoshiie | ... | Yoshiya |
| Yuri Komuro | ... | Miki |
| Shirô Shimomoto | ... | Sugishita |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Mika Abe | ... | Camera woman |
| Taeko Fuchi | ... | AV Actress |
| Ayane Fukazawa | ... | Actress |
| Mitsutaka Hasegawa | ... | Assistant director |
| Ai Honda | ... | AV Actress |
| Juri Honma | ... | Girl in the office |
| Tomoaki Hori | ... | Camera man |
| Keiko Ikeda | ... | Publicist |
| Sanae Iketani | ... | AV Actress |
| Kenichi Inagaki | ||
| Jun Kato | ... | Publicist |
| Takeshi Kawabe | ||
| Kaname Koyama | ... | Manager |
| Yuna Miyazawa | ... | AV Actress |
| Kei Morikawa | ... | Director |
| Itaru Nakayama | ||
| Yûko Narahara | ... | Box office girl |
| Fuka Sakurai | ... | AV Actress |
| Mayumi Shinjo | ... | AV Actress |
| Tomokazu Suzuki | ... | Scout man |
| Yôko Takeda | ... | AV Actress |
| Haruka Tsuboi | ||
| Yumie Watanabe | ... | Girl in the office |
| Sota Yamaguchi | ||
| Koji Yazawa | ||
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A teenage couple, Mari and Atushi, elope to a big city in search for a better life. Mari, who is crippled, tries her best to look for a job while her boyfriend spends most of his time picking up girls.
Eventually, Atushi is introduced to the world of scoutmen - flashy, dashing men who recruit young women off the streets for adult video (AV). Mari befriends Kana, who appears to be selling ""party tickets", but who makes most of her money by providing various services to salarymen with kinky fetishes.
The director spins a disturbing and rather sad tale about two innocent teens who get involved with the sex industry. At the same time, he shows us how volatile a career it can be. Aging AV stars are less in demand, and turn to fuzoku, the non-intercourse sex industry. A former hotshot scoutman degenerates into a lechering loser.
A well-balanced look at the sex industry particular to Japan, where girls sell their bodies to "dirty old men" to buy branded goods, while overworked salarymen get off on weird fetishes.
It was an eye-opener to see how scoutmen did their pitch (director filmed actual scoutmen doing their thing) and how the young teens managed to hook up with their "clients". Especially with the economic bubble bursting, young women are increasingly becoming attracted to such industries, which is easy money.