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Cast

Hidehiko Mizushima

Hidehiko Mizushima

Yoshihiko Tsuruta

Yoshihiko Tsuruta

Crew

Masayoshi Nogami

Masayoshi Nogami

Director

Nanae Shimada

Nanae Shimada

Screenplay

Hitoshi Ishikawa

Hitoshi Ishikawa

Assistant Director

Hajime Ishibe

Hajime Ishibe

Lighting Technician

Hideo Itō

Hideo Itō

Director of Photography

Ken Togoh

Ken Togoh

Producer

Shinji Hoshi

Shinji Hoshi

Original Story

Tadafumi Tomioka

Tadafumi Tomioka

Assistant Director

Hirohisa Sasaki

Hirohisa Sasaki

Assistant Director

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Sea of Vanity

19842.0 / 1060 min
Drama

Overview

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.