Path of the Beast

Year: 1980

Runtime: 71 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro

DramaRomance

Seventeen‑year‑old Saki lives in a dilapidated shack with her mother, who ekes out a living hauling a street‑food cart from dawn until night. Having dropped out of school, Saki spends her days helping sell noodles and, when not working, engages in a volatile sexual relationship with her boyfriend Sotoo while also entertaining a truck driver, Ataru. Convinced that her promiscuity is inherited, she resolves to break away from both men in hopes of changing her circumstances.

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