虚飾の海
director:
Masayoshi Nogami
playwright:
Nanae Shimada
actor:
Hidehiko Mizushima
/
Yoshihiko Tsuruta
/
Jun Yoshida
/
Bunmei Tobayama
/
Atsushi Imaizumi
…
genre:
Drama
region:
Japan
language:
Japanese
length: 1h
release date: 1984-09-01
IMDb: tt10139604
虚飾の海
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.