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Sea of Vanity (1984) | Slate

Rated 2.0 on TMDB

Sea of Vanity

虚飾の海

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.

Released: 1984
Runtime: 1h 0m
Genres: Drama
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese

Direction and writing

Masayoshi NogamiDirector

Hitoshi IshikawaAssistant Director

Tadafumi TomiokaAssistant Director

Where to watch

Unavailable

Cast

Hidehiko Mizushima
Yoshihiko Tsuruta
Jun Yoshida

SH

And 3 more

Bunmei Tobayama

Atsushi Imaizumi

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