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An Aria on Gazes

An Aria on Gazes

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An Aria on Gazes

1992

1h 5m

5.2(19 votes)

Drama

Horror

Overview

Housewife Kyoko begins moonlighting at a mysterious sex club as a means of rebelling against her boring salaryman husband Akihito. The Bedroom isn’t like any normal club, though: the female hostesses all take the powerful sedative Halcion to sleep through their encounters with the male clientele.

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Kokuei Company

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Cast & crew

9 featured cast members

Starring

Kiyomi Itō

Kiyomi Itō

Kyoko Esaka / Maya / Mio

Momori Asano

Ai

Kyoko Nakamura

Kyoko Nakamura

Kinue Nemoto

Issei Sagawa

Issei Sagawa

Mr. Takano

Kōichi Imaizumi

Kōichi Imaizumi

Visitor 4

Taketoshi Watari

Taketoshi Watari

Man dressed as surgeon

Hiromi Hirose

Visitor 3

Mineo Sugiura

Akio Esaka / Takano

Takeshi Itō

Takeshi Itō

Kei

Creative team

Directed by: Hisayasu Satō
Written by: Shirō Yumeno
Produced by: Keiko Satô

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