With her wedding just a week away, Kyoko is reminiscing with her father, Soichiro. Suddenly, Kyoko begins to miss her mother, who left home. Then, a thug suddenly appears, knocks Soichiro unconscious, and attacks Kyoko. After the man leaves, the father goes mad from the shock, hallucinating that his daughter is his wife and violates her...
Yuki Kazamatsuri
Kyoko / Kyoko's mother Yasuko
Kohei Tsuzaki
Soichiro Ichikawa
Jiro Kokubu
Fumihiko Ono
Maiko Kazama
Mari, hostess
Akari Kawaguchi
Megumi Aoi
Mami
Rikako Abe
Child
B. Pegira
Keiko
Masaru Kosaka
Masaru
With her wedding just a week away, Kyoko is reminiscing with her father, Soichiro. Suddenly, Kyoko begins to miss her mother, who left home. Then, a thug suddenly appears, knocks Soichiro unconscious, and attacks Kyoko. After the man leaves, the father goes mad from the shock, hallucinating that his daughter is his wife and violates her...
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