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In a night painted with raw, incendiary desire, the story follows Shuhei as he slips from a morbid funeral into a world pulsing with illicit passions. At the seductive bar "EDEN," sultry whispers and heady intoxication set the stage for heated encounters—moments charged with forbidden attraction. An awkward, yet intensely charged reunion with his estranged brother in a steamy hotel room sparks a domino effect of erotic interludes, igniting wild nights at a pulsating disco and secret rendezvous at a coastal villa. Here, simmering rivalries and envious longings flare into explosive encounters, culminating in a searing, tumultuous climax where the boundaries between lust and violence vanish in a frenzy of physical, unrestrained ecstasy.
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In a night painted with raw, incendiary desire, the story follows Shuhei as he slips from a morbid funeral into a world pulsing with illicit passions. At the seductive bar "EDEN," sultry whispers and heady intoxication set the stage for heated encounters—moments charged with forbidden attraction. An awkward, yet intensely charged reunion with his estranged brother in a steamy hotel room sparks a domino effect of erotic interludes, igniting wild nights at a pulsating disco and secret rendezvous at a coastal villa. Here, simmering rivalries and envious longings flare into explosive encounters, culminating in a searing, tumultuous climax where the boundaries between lust and violence vanish in a frenzy of physical, unrestrained ecstasy.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Chūsei Sone, Toshimichi Saeki, Nanae Shimada, Yūji Tanaka, Toshio Okada
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Runtime:99 minutes
Studio:Toei Central Film
Cast
Chūsei Sone
Director
Kenichi Kaneda
Shuhei Motegi
Satoshi Sadanaga
Toshiro Karasawa
Mirai Hayashi
Kaori Tasaka
Koji Tanaka
Koji Motegi
Ken Ogata
Rintaro Motegi (Shuhei's Father)
Kyōko Enami
Akiko Akutsu (Shuhei's Mother)
Hiroshi Mikami
Tsutomu Kobayashi
Akihiro Shimizu
Yusuke Kondo
Yūko Katagiri
Mayumi Nakahira
Cliff Lanning
Koji Akutsu
Hiroshi Fukami
Hajime Doi
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