Newspaper salesmen Kihachi and Jiro live in a boarding house with their landlord Harue, who is always reminding them of their overdue rent, Janet, a call girl who always helps them satisfy their sexual needs, and Akemi, their younger sister who always falls in love with men and gets rejected. But when Ichino, the landlady's niece, shows up, Kihachi and Jiro's lives change completely...
Sarina Takeuchi
Ichino
Nana Aida
Akemi
Sumire Matsu
Janet
Motoko Sasaki
Harue
Koji Makimura
Kihachi
Takahiro Nomura
Jirô
Yuya Ishikawa
Akemi's Ex-Boyfriend
Tarō Araki
Medical Student
Takashi Naha
Mr. Shinsuke
Newspaper salesmen Kihachi and Jiro live in a boarding house with their landlord Harue, who is always reminding them of their overdue rent, Janet, a call girl who always helps them satisfy their sexual needs, and Akemi, their younger sister who always falls in love with men and gets rejected. But when Ichino, the landlady's niece, shows up, Kihachi and Jiro's lives change completely...
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Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
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An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
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