Film · Drama

Sea of Vanity (1984)

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.

Director

Masayoshi Nogami

Writers

Nanae Shimada, Shinji Hoshi

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Release date

September 1, 1984

Original title

虚飾の海