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Sea of Vanity

A film adaptation (funded by Ken Togo) based on an expose book by a person involved in the Japanese entertainment industry of the time. The book describes among other things the drug-fueled parties, orgies of the entertainment business and what some celebrities like Johnny Kitagawa among others were allegedly up to in their free time. Basically giving an open-book about the secrets of the entertainment-world. The film adapts and portrays some of the shocking scenes of this book, focussing more on the gay-aspect of the expose.

Top Cast

  • Hidehiko Mizushima

    Hidehiko Mizushima

  • Yoshihiko Tsuruta

    Yoshihiko Tsuruta

  • Jun Yoshida

    Jun Yoshida

  • Bunmei Tobayama

    Bunmei Tobayama

  • Atsushi Imaizumi

    Atsushi Imaizumi

  • Yutaka Ikejima

    Yutaka Ikejima

  • Akira Sakamoto

    Akira Sakamoto

  • Yuri Izumi

    Yuri Izumi

Overview

A film adaptation (funded by Ken Togo) based on an expose book by a person involved in the Japanese entertainment industry of the time. The book describes among other things the drug-fueled parties, orgies of the entertainment business and what some celebrities like Johnny Kitagawa among others were allegedly up to in their free time. Basically giving an open-book about the secrets of the entertainment-world. The film adapts and portrays some of the shocking scenes of this book, focussing more on the gay-aspect of the expose.

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