A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster and his bumbling underlings to perform a hit. While things work out in the beginning, this young psychopath quickly becomes more trouble than the gang expected. Will they be able to rid themselves of him, or will they be his next victims?
Toshiaki Toyoda's feature directorial debut, PORNOSTAR is a landmark independent Japanese cult film that explores 1990s urban nihilism, youthful alienation, and post-bubble societal anxiety in Tokyo and establishing the filmmaker's gritty, guerilla-style aesthetic.
DIRECTED BY TOSHIAKI TOYODA
JAPAN | 1998 | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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