Eighteen (1996)
A gay version of the classic pink "Groper Train" series. A high school boy gets onto a crowded Hatten train and encounters a man who molests him. He awakens to the taste of men and the scent of his father, whom he had forgotten after passing away at an early age...
Director:
Takaaki Hashiguchi
Writer:
Yomi Tsukioka
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Moto Ôno as Kei Kusumoto |
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Setsuhiko Kobayashi as Seiichi Yanagihara / Kei's father |
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Natsuhiko Ueda as Yuji Inoue, the tutor |
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Kiyomi Itō as Sawako Kusumoto, Kei's mother |
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Ryuji Yamamoto as Yakuza |
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Kensuke Suzuki as Boy A |
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Kenichi Kôbe as Man in the toilet |
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Hajime Mao as Yoshito Mao |
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Kiyoshi Nakayama as Homeless man |
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Itaru Nakayama as Kei (age 5) |
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Boyakkī Tanaka as Train passenger |
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Ryūri Nose as Young man in toilet |
| Writing | Yomi Tsukioka | Screenplay |
| Directing | Takaaki Hashiguchi | Director |
| Camera | Masato Nakao | Director of Photography |
| Production | Shinji Komada | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Shōji Sakai | Editor |
| Lighting | Ken Akita | Gaffer |
| Directing | Yutaka Onishi | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Takesaku Niisato | First Assistant Director |
| Camera | Satoshi Kagamihaya | Assistant Camera |
| Lighting | Motomu Oda | Assistant Gaffer |
| Sound | Hanjiro Nakamura | Sound |