Love Bites Back

Love Bites Back

Love Bites Back

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Love Bites Back

1988

1h 42m

4.0(3 votes)

Drama

Mystery

Overview

Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a successful life with his wife and daughter. Outwardly, his family seems really happy, but in reality Yuichi enjoys sex with everyone but his wife Chikako. One day, he gets a phone call from a woman named Sanae, an old elementary school classmate of his.

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Nikkatsu Corporation

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Kaori Momoi

Kaori Momoi

Chikako Koga

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Yuichi Koga

Mitsuru Hirata

Mitsuru Hirata

Kotaro Yamazaki

Kimiko Yo

Kimiko Yo

Sanae Ebino

Yoshihiro Kato

Yoshihiro Kato

Shohei Tsunoda

Toshiyuki Kitami

Toshiyuki Kitami

Kojima

Saeko Kizuki

Saeko Kizuki

Shizuko Kudo

Asako Kobayashi

Asako Kobayashi

Kozue Tsunoda

Naoto Takenaka

Naoto Takenaka

Uemura

Jun Togawa

Jun Togawa

Rie

Creative team

Directed by: Tatsumi Kumashiro
Written by: Haruhiko Arai
Produced by: Kota Yamada

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