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Pornostar (1998)

Pornostar poster
Original title
ポルノスター
Directed by
Toshiaki Toyoda
Genre
drama film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 35 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man returns to Tokyo and gets pulled into a violent underworld of crime and sex. He struggles with his own destructive impulses and the broken people around him.

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What happens

Pornostar (Japanese: ポルノスター, Hepburn: Porunostā), also released as Tokyo Rampage, is a 1998 Japanese drama film directed by Toshiaki Toyoda. The film was released on October 10, 1998. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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