Path of the Beast (1980) [N/A]

Release Date:
March 29, 1980

Original Title:
少女娼婦 けものみち

Alternate Titles:
Shoujo shofu: kemonomichi
少女娼婦 けものみち

Genres:
Drama | Romance

Production Companies:
Nikkatsu Corporation

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 71

17 year old Saki lives in a run-down hack with her mom who survives by pushing a food cart from dawn to dusk. Saki has dropped out of school, and when she's not helping her mother selling noodles in the streets, she's playing flesh-games with boyfriend Sotoo. In her spare time, the girl also entertains a truck driver named Ataru. She believes her promiscuity is a trait inherited from her mom. Determined to improve her lot in life (she doesn't want to grow up like her mother), Saki decides to stop seeing the two guys. The sizzling Japanese Tatsumi Kumashiro’s erotic drama 'Shoujo Shofu: Kemonomichi' (aka 'Whore Girl - the Animal Trail' distributed internationally as 'Path of the Beast'), offers a venue for sex kitten Ayako Yoshimura to reveal choice areas of her nubile frame.

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Art Direction:
Heihachiro Watanabe

Assistant Director:
Hidehiro Ito

Director:
Tatsumi Kumashiro

Director of Photography:
Shinsaku Himeda

Editor:
Osamu Inoue

Lighting Director:
Makoto Shinkawa

Original Music Composer:
Eiichi Arai

Producer:
Akira Miura

Screenplay:
Tatsumi Kumashiro
Rio Kishida

Sound Recordist:
Fumio Hashimoto

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