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Country girl Akiko visits a Tokyo college in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, horny co-eds, a psych professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her beloved Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.
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Country girl Akiko visits a Tokyo college in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, horny co-eds, a psych professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her beloved Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.
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Genre:Music, Comedy
Written By:Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kunitoshi Manda
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Runtime:83 minutes
Studio:Directors Company, Epic Records Japan
Cast
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director
Yoriko Doguchi
Akiko
Jūzō Itami
Professor Hirayama
Kenso Kato
Minoru Yoshioka
Usagi Asō
Emi
Toru Miyabi
Teruoka
Yuichi Kishino
Hirayama's Seminar Leader
Hiroshi Katsuno
Seminar Student
Yuki Sawano
Seminar Student
Haruko Soma
Seminar Student
Kou Mikazuki
Seminar Student
Hoshi Serazawa
Seminar Student
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