Movie: True Story of a Woman in Soapland: Tear!

Top 5 Billed Cast

Shinobu Wakana
Shinobu Wakana

Keiko Shikura

Miki Higuchi
Miki Higuchi

Kazumi Kojima

Midori Yūzaki
夕崎碧

Mizue Kikuta

Kazuo Ôtani
Kazuo Ôtani

Shigeru Kikuta

Masayoshi Takigawa
Masayoshi Takigawa

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    Sex worker Hasekura (Shinobu Wakana) is visited by old classmate and current lanky art teacher Kikuta (Kazuo Ôtani) when his wife ditches him over his constant philandering. Soon he's juggling his new fondness for soapy sex with his mistress and his now-pregnant wife, a situation that becomes more complicated by the minute as marital obligations and unrestrained kinks collide.

  • Release Date

    1987-02-28

  • Average

    3.7

  • Rating:

    1.9 starts
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  • Languages:

    日本語
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