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1967

Hana o kuu mushi

Burning Nature

花を喰う蟲

Release Date
June, 15th, 1967
Running Time
91 min
Genre
Feature
Color
Monochrome
Screening Format
-
Screen Size
Cinema Scope (1:2.35)

[ Directed by ]

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

[ Production Company ]

NIKKATSU

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

NIKKATSU

[ Story ]

Nami is a girl who wants to get ahead and does not much care how she does it. One night she meets Kamoto who picks her up and takes her to a night club. She likes this and is not surprised when the next stop is a hotel. She is surprised, however, that he asks nothing of her -- they only talk, and he wonders if she would like to be rich, to be famous, and to be even more beautiful than she already is. Of course she wants these things and so she let him send her to a charm school, learns to be perfectly groomed, and wins beauty contensts. Now famous and beautiful, she then listens to Kamoto's plans for making them both rich, and her heart is chilled. Though she acts sophisticated, as though she would stop at nothing, she is really young and relatively naive. But it is too late to back out now. She agrees, as he knew that she would, and he puts her to work. But this kind of work, though well paid, exacts its own price. She may become wealthy but she cannot remain famous, much less beautiful. Nami has sold out and will now reap the rewards of that decision.

【Quoted from the database of Nikkatsu Corporation】
【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1967.10.4】

[ Contact (International) ]

Nikkatsu Corporation
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3-28-12 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033
Attn: KAWAI Emico, FURUKAWA Mami, KATO Taku, SUNG Tzwei, KOMORI Keiko, YAMAMOTO Umi
tel: +81 3 5689 1014
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E-mail: international@nikkatsu.co.jp
https://intl.nikkatsu.com

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