School-girl sex rackets! Teen prostitutes trading sex for designer clothes! Despite the lurid material, director Masato Harada's intelligent drama takes a refreshingly non-exploitative look at Japan's real-life sex industry and its relationship to an increasingly youth-oriented consumer culture. Seventeen-year-old Lisa (Yukiko Okamoto) arrives in Tokyo with her passport, plane ticket and the 300,000 yen she's saved to help start a new life in New York City. With a whole day to kill before her flight leaves the following morning, Lisa heads for the flashy Shibuya district — ground zero for Tokyo's trendy teen culture — where she knows certain shops will pay ...
Released:
1997
Rated:
NR
Length:
110 mins