XX: Beautiful Prey
May 17 1996
•2h 40m
•Thriller, Action, Romance, Horror
This Japanese thriller finds a sexy policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her investigation has led her to a seductive sadist and his equally appealing masochist victim. Falling prey to her suspects' powerful allure, she struggles to extricate herself from an increasingly torrid affair to solve the mystery she set out to investigate.
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Ren Osugi
Tagari
Kei Marimura
Yu
Makiko Watanabe
Noriko
Minori Terada
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