Love & Pop

Love & Pop

7.7

Jan 10 1998

2h 52m

Drama

Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.

Asumi Miwa

Asumi Miwa

Hiromi Yoshii

Kirari

Kirari

Chisa Noda

Hirono Kudo

Hirono Kudo

Nao Yokoi

Yukie Nakama

Yukie Nakama

Chieko Takamori

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