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1970

Denki kurage Kawaii akuma

The Good Little Bad Girl

でんきくらげ 可愛い悪魔

Release Date
August, 22nd, 1970
Running Time
83 min
Genre
Feature
Color
Color
Screening Format
-,HDCAM SR
Screen Size
Cinema Scope (1:2.35)

[ Directed by ]

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

[ Production Company ]

DAIEI

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

DAIEI

[ Story ]

Yumi (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen years old, and bored with life in the country, comes to Tokyo, dreaming of a good life in the big city where her elder sister, Nobuko (Reiko Kasahara), is working.
She takes a test for a part in a musical ,and her nicely endowed figure attracts the attention of the judges as well as the other applicants, but without any experience, she fails. But she makes friends with Goro (Kenzo Kaneko), an actor of an underground theater, and Hisako (Hiroko Kai), who claims to be a photo model.
Yumi is introduced to Koizumi (Daigo Kusano), a cameraman and agrees to become his model, but he is a questionable character and she leaves his studio when she finds out that he is taking obscene pictures for dubious purposes.
She then calls on Goro who welcomes her with open arms. They make love quite naturally that very night. Each day she spends with Goro and the other members of the underground theater is filled with happiness, but she is again shocked when she sees her beloved Goro taking marijuana and loving every girl he touches in a wild party.
Now, Yumi is forced to experience many unusual things . However, when she is recongnized by Tsugawa (Nobutada Iwasaki), a popular commercial photographer, and is contracted by a famous cosmetic company, the ticket to success seems to hers, and she does not even dream that she will be caught in a dark trap…

【Quoted from the database of Kadokawa Corporation】
【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1970.13.4】

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