Violated Paradise

An Amazing Film That Shows an Innocent Maiden Exposed to the Fantastic Spectacle of Life in the Raw.

7.3

|1963|68 min

A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding love and a job as ama, a pearl diver.

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