It All Started with Taking It All Off

Feb 11, 2012

1h 20m

★ 5.3

Overview

Morishita, who came to Tokyo from Akita, made her debut as an AV actress at the age of 18, and quickly became so popular that she was called an AV queen. After retiring from AV after 10 years of activity and publishing an autobiographical book, she made a movie based on it. Morishita looked back at the time in the process of making the script, but due to prejudice against the profession of an AV actress, the content of the script goes in an unexpected direction. Meanwhile, Morishita reunites with her hated father for the first time since moving to Tokyo.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

LEONE

Happinet Pictures

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Cast

Kurumi Morishita

Risa Narita

Mae Otsuka

Tatsuya Egawa

Shinsho Nakamaru

Rie Okada

Misaki Saijô

Taro Suruga

Sôtarô

Takayuki Tsubaki

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