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A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.
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Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
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高倉健 Isamu Tekada
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Yoko Hayama 
山本麟一 
北林谷栄 
渡辺文雄 
由利徹 
田中春男 
月丘千秋 Chizuko Nogami 
Kyoko Kamimura 
穂積隆信 
近藤宏 
関山耕司 
汐路章 
加藤嘉 
南利明 
志村喬 Naruhiko Umechi Kazuko Kamei
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