Chigusa Takayama
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Japanese actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Japan
Birthday: March 06, 1931
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Shi no dangai
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-26
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Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Overview: A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-28
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The Four Roughnecks
Overview: Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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Newlywed Hell
Overview: Yuki returns to her hometown after several years. She has been away ever since the tragic events surrounding her abusive older husband. While in town she barely escapes the sexual advances of an old friend and accidentally comes across a scene that repels and excites her. Through an open doorway she spies a woman bound with rope. Thus begins her descent into the world of submission and pleasure.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-12-06
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The Frozen Plains
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-22
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Seiko's Juicy Thighs: Public Bath Beauty
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-29
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Wife to Be Sacrificed
Overview: A wife charges her husband with sexual battery. He escapes from the police and goes into hiding. In three years, she divorces him and tries to put the pieces of her life back in order, when suddenly he returns. Obsessed with rage and hatred, he kidnaps her and brings her to a house in a remote wooded area. There he disciplines her vehemently, subjecting her to increasingly shocking forms of sexual torture, tetherings, suspensions and humiliations. Astonishingly, through the rage and lust, the pair develops a relationship that pushes the boundaries of lurid passions and perverse obsessions.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-26
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The Youth Killer
Overview: Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-23
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The Warped Ones
Overview: A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-03
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Fully Opened: Sisters Exposed
Overview: A sister lives with her other two sisters who work as strippers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-04-03
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Rinbu
Overview: Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's novel, "La Ronde", many people are having sex in a variety of ways. A girl and her boyfriend go to a pool bar where she is served a free cocktail drink courtesy of a man who wants to date her. Another guy challenges her boyfriend to a game with the girlfriend being the prize. Three men are fighting over the young woman and a winner takes the girl. It ends up as four guys and the woman in a hotel room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-09
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Morning Fog
Overview: Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a prefectural hospital. The film depicts the daughter's attempt to grow from adolescence to adulthood in a family of one mother and one daughter, and her emotional exchange with her mother against the backdrop of the harsh natural environment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-18
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Overview: Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-14
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Kill or get killed!
Overview: When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-07
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Lusty Sisters
Overview: Three sisters live alienated existences in modern day Tokyo. One works as a secretary, one is a prostitute, and one is a criminal. The secretary is cynically unhappy with the sexist business world which limits her opportunities for advancement and makes her a target for her lecherous boss. The prostitute lives an aimless life, drifting between men, and often the target of either police or jealous wives. The criminal, who lives by disrupting the society which oppresses her two sisters, is the only happy one of the three.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-29
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Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion
Overview: Iori, taken from an orphanage by a family for domestic work, runs away and is adopted and raised by two young men. Ten years later, she crosses paths with her former step-sister, who is soon poisoned to death, Iori being the prime suspect.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-21
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Maruhi anaba joho: Hinba no toiki
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-13
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Wet Lips
Overview: A prostitute and her lover go on the run after killing her pimp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-29
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Sanctuary in the Night
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-25
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Coed Report: Blooming Yuko
Overview: Roman Porno from 1971. Sequel to Coed Report: Yuko's White Breasts (1971).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-29
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Lovers Are Wet
Overview: A young man named Katsu comes to a rural town by the sea, and begins to work as a movie reel carrier in a movie theater. Apparently this town is the hometown of Katsu, but no matter how many residents of the town ask, "Is it Katsu?" he just laughs. The wife of the cinema owner that has become involved with Katsu is interested in his past ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-24
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The Last Laugh
Overview: Roman Porno film depicting the great uproar that the children cause in the division of their property, even before their parents are dead, as they claw at their greed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-06
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Onna tengoku: Kodane moraimasu
Overview: Pinku from 1972.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-17
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Dangerous Liaisons
Overview: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' is adapted to a contemporary setting. An abominable and burning jealousy and an evil relationship between a man and a woman unfold in the nature of a game. Eventually, jealousy will deeply hurt the true love of a chaste married woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-18
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A Modern Day Schoolma'am
Overview: Naomi, a high school teacher, feels lonely living alone, so she secretly begins living with her student Keiji. It could be said that she is providing for Keiji as an outlet for her sexual desires rather than living together. Naomi, who has a natural lewd blood in her veins, knows that Keiji's older brother, Keisuke, is passionate about her, so she immediately decides to have a relationship with him. One day, Keiji gets fed up with Naomi and disappears...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-08-25
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Secret Book: Turbulent Cloud
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-06
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The Key
Overview: A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law to sleep with her because the idea arouses him, while also making him insanely jealous. The professor keeps a journal of his fantasies in a locked cupboard and hopes that his wife will find the key and read it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-05-04
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Red Light Tobita Brothel
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-10
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Koichiro Uno's Yummy and Meaty
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-05
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College Girl: One Summer Experience
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-09-03
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Ken-chan no oneesan
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-02
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Sandakan No. 8
Overview: A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-11-02
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Great Edo: Secret Story of a Female Doctor in Trouble
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-10-18
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Luminous Woman
Overview: A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-10-24
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The Scarred Angel
Overview: A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki, Hachiro begins to investigate the cause of his older sister Sumiko's suicide. While Hachiro was in juvenile detention, Sumiko committed suicide, but there are too many mysteries surrounding this suicide...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-24
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Secret Chronicle: Prostitution Market
Overview: Sold into prostitution by her "uncle", a young girl is so innocent and naive that she doesn't know what she has to do.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-16
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Dai shusse monogatari
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Tattooed Flower Vase
Overview: Ms. Yoshino, respectable lady and attractive widow, leads a quiet and peaceful life with her teenage daughter Takako. However, their lifes change radically when fate confronts both with the young Hideo. While spending time with Takako, the latter is more attracted to her mother, and she in turn starts to feel the same, because he reminds her of his late father, a kabuki actor with whom she had an affair in the past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-09-25
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Black Sun
Overview: Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the death of a white GI. Despite terrible misunderstandings and culture clash, Akira agrees to help Gill escape towards the sea, dodging military police along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-24
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Last Day of the Red Light District: March 31, 1958
Overview: The lives and loves of several prostitutes are shown on the night the Prostitution Prevention Law goes into effect and criminalizes their profession.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-22
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Overview: Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-02-04
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A Colt Is My Passport
Overview: A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-04
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Red Handkerchief
Overview: A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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Evening Primrose
Overview: The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam Group is a small anarchist organization lead by Daijiro, a silver tongued "Benshi", a performer who provides narratives for silent films, playing multiple roles. In other words, he was a master at the art of deception, a handy talent when it came to 'doing jobs' for his group. His revolutionary ideals attracted many to his squadron, but among them was a young girl who was oblivious to his group's activities. Her name was Shino.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-28
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Our Wedding
Overview: On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified. The attacker is thought to be an ex-girlfriend of Tsutomu, the groom. He gives two names to the police but these two are still alive. But there is still one woman in Tsutomu's mind...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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Intentions of Murder
Overview: The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-06-28
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A Chain of Islands
Overview: When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncovers a black market scheme involving counterfeit money, murder, and conspiracy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-26
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The Long Death
Overview: On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amount of money. In parallel with the investigation conducted by the Japanese police, journalists are also trying to find the culprit. Based on a true incident.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-12
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The Sea and Poison
Overview: Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American air crew.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-17
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Rolling on the Road
Overview: George is a washed-up middle-aged punk rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker. His life becomes even more of a mess when the nurse he raped moves in with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-23
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Delinquent Girl: Alley Cat In Heat
Overview: A naive country girl runs away to the city and gets picked up by a kindly well dressed man. She soon finds that life can be cruel.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-05-31
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Moment of Demon
Overview: Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, shows up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-26
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The Gambling Monk
Overview: One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-13
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Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
Overview: For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot reach a climax unless they peek at a couple, across the way, making love. Intent on climbing up in the world, Ayuko uses all her wiles to get her patron, who is putty in her hands, to move her from her grubby apartment house to a dreamboat of a place. She then tries to find a place to work more befitting her new home but all the elite night clubs will have nothing to do with her and with time heavy on her hands, the devil finds mischief for idle hands to do.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-18
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Smashing the 0-Line
Overview: Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-25
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Outlaw: Heartless
Overview: Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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Gemini Woman
Overview: A man catches the eye of an elegant lady at a bar. She relents to his advances. In the morning he throws her out of his apartment. He will soon regret his mistake when she slowly plots revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-08-10
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Nun in Rope Hell
Overview: A woman gets caught by the wife of her lover which results in a stabbing. Feeling guilty she runs away and joins a nunnery. But she soon discovers that several nuns and a well known author have turned the place into their own personal S&M playground.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-05-25
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Tomodachi
Overview: Shinta is a sixth grader in Kawasaki City a troublemaker that dreams to become a soccer player. Yoshiko, a classmate who moved to Kawasaki from Iwate Prefecture two years ago, is a gloomy girl who suffers from asthma due to the polluted air in Kawasaki and is ostracized by her class. Shinta is placed next to Yoshiko in class and their stories will take a turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-24
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Apartment Wife: Prime Woman
Overview: The story depicts the love and hate surrounding artificial insemination between a husband who is unable to have children and a normal wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-28
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Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki
Overview: Koji Tadokoro, the manager of a hot bento shop, lives an ordinary life with his girlfriend Noriko Kinoshita, who works at a nearby supermarket and loves sex. Tonight they are having sex, as if they are going to try to break the Guinness World Record, when suddenly the window opens and Nakagawa, a middle school classmate, appears. Shimizu, who had become a film director, has died. The two go to the funeral, and on the way home they pass a man accompanied by a beautiful woman. That man is none other than his childhood friend, Kimio Kondo. Kimio is the epitome of a money man. He is a doctor working at a university hospital, and on the side, he writes new music lyrics and is popular with nurses and popular singers. The three are excited to see each other again after a long time, and plan a class reunion trip to Kimio's luxurious mansion...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-20
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