Sea of Vanity
Sea of Vanity
1984, Japanese. Directed by Masayoshi Nogami.
A film adaptation (funded by Ken Togo) based on an expose book by a person involved in the Japanese entertainment industry of the time. The book describes among other things the drug-fueled parties, orgies of the entertainment business and what some celebrities like Johnny Kitagawa among others were allegedly up to in their free time. Basically giving an open-book about the secrets of the entertainment-world. The film adapts and portrays some of the shocking scenes of this book, focussing more on the gay-aspect of the expose.
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- 1h 0m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 1 September 1984
- Original title
- 虚飾の海
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Nanae Shimada
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Sea of Vanity isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 September 1984. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Sea of Vanity?
Sea of Vanity (1984) was directed by Masayoshi Nogami and stars Hidehiko Mizushima, Yoshihiko Tsuruta, Jun Yoshida.