
15 Dec 1970

The Forbidden Fruit
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A high-school girl who lives in a rural town in Japan struggles to define her own way in life. To help her impoverished family she works as a video fetish performer which leads to problems for her and her family with a criminal underworld.
Cocoa
Kazuo
Sakura
Aiko
Tokio
Yokoyama
Shigeru
15 Dec 1970
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