A woman runs a successful boutique and lives a work-centered life. She is called a career girl by those around her. She also has a sweet lover. He even proposed to her. But she doesn't want to live that way. She actually had an abominable trauma in her past. She had her mind and body toyed with by a sweaty manual laborer with no trace of education, and even though it was a past she wanted to erase, she still felt physically attracted to that man...
Yuriko Azuma
Yûko Mizushima
Jiro Kokubu
Rumi Sasaki
Ami Takatori
A woman runs a successful boutique and lives a work-centered life. She is called a career girl by those around her. She also has a sweet lover. He even proposed to her. But she doesn't want to live that way. She actually had an abominable trauma in her past. She had her mind and body toyed with by a sweaty manual laborer with no trace of education, and even though it was a past she wanted to erase, she still felt physically attracted to that man...
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
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Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
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In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.