Mamoru WATANABE

Secret Hot Spring Resort: Starfish At Night

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Mamoru WATANABE’s wonderfully melancholic film follows a band of smut-peddlers, consisting of Hisao, his wife and main model Saku, and their partner in crime Tori, as they travel between hot spring resorts across Japan.

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Secret Hot Spring Resort: Starfish At Night (NC 2009)

Japan 1970

73 minutes

Director
Mamoru WATANABE

Script
Wataru HINO

Production
Kanto Eihai

World sales
Stance Company

Cast
Reiko OTSUKI, Tomomi SAHARA, Jun YOSHIDA, Hiroshi NIKAIDO, Yuichi MINATO

About Mamoru WATANABE

Mamoru WATANABE was born in Tokyo in 1931 and studied at Waseda University. He is one of the oldest directors still working in the genre of pink film.

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