Sea of Vanity
MovieTitle | 虚飾の海 |
User score | 2 |
Release date | Sep 1, 1984 |
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Director | Masayoshi Nogami |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | ENK Promotion |
Run time | 60 min. |
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.