
19 Oct 2001

Riding in Cars with Boys
In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.
An honors graduate in literature, Wyman is stuck writing cheap erotic fiction, but somehow ends up starring in an AV film. Suddenly a porn superstar in Japan, he discovers a whole new world fraught with pleasure, pain and more twists and turns than he or the audience expects.
Wyman Chan / Mario Ozuka
Shodaiko Hatoyama
Nagasaki Naoki
Himself
Herself
Simon Yuen
Kam
Maisora Aoi
Cecilia
Larry Leung
Show Host
Herself
Noriko Waiyama
Herself
Herself
Housewife
Herself
Erotic Train Girl
friend
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