Dec 24, 2005
108 min
Full-HD

Strange Circus (2005)

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.

Category

Mystery Horror Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Sedic

Rie Kuwana

Young Mitsuko

Masumi Miyazaki

Mitsuko / Sayuri / Taeko

Seiko Iwaido

Teenage Mitsuko

Issei Ishida

Yuji

Fujiko

Gozo's Mistress

Madamu Rejînu

Black Shadow

Tomorowo Taguchi

Taeko's Editor-in-Chief

Hiroshi Ohguchi

Gozo

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