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Completed - JAPANESE - Erotic, Social issues, True Story - 88 minutes

Log Line

Graduating from the smartest university of Japan, a sociologist as well as a news reporter, Ryoko Suzuki, exposes her past as being a porn actress to escape from boredom. This docudrama style of storytelling portrays her different lives by day and night, questioning what woman’s happiness is.

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  • Busan 2017 (Line up)
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Year of production : 2017

Director(s) : Eiji UCHIDA
Writer(s) : Suzumi SUZUKI, Hidehiro ITO, Eiji UCHIDA
Cast : Chihiro SHIBATA, Mariko TSUTSUI, Hiroshi SHINAGAWA

Producer(s) : Gaku KAWASAKI (TOEI VIDEO CO., LTD.)

Synopsis

Ryoko Suzuki (Chihiro Shibata), 29, is on an elite life course having earned a graduate degree from the prestigious Tokyo University and employed at a leading newspaper as reporter covering the political scene. Despite such high specs, she carries a past in which she worked as an adult video actress during her student days. She is blessed with a physical beauty that would have gotten her into a top university without much effort, struggle or superior intellect anyway. Nevertheless, as a front line news reporter, she should be leading an indisputably happy and fulfilling life. But she’s bored. Ryoko chooses to stay out all night partying at “host bars” with friends Keiko (Chika Uchida), Yuka (Ami Tomite) and a powerfully rich boyfriend, Hikaru (Atsushi Harada). But even that is not enough, and Ryoko finds herself falling refreshingly in love with a struggling and dedicated musician named Rei (Yuki Kubota). While asserting her conviction that a woman ’s body has repeated market value, Ryoko deep down is in a constant search for the home of her heart. Here is the story of one woman struggling with two very conflicting lives in the hope that it somehow it will yield happiness.

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Country(ies) : JAPAN


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