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Hard les: Honban maru nama dorei
Overview
The Sakura family is a family of noble lineage, and it is lived there by their only daughter, Yuko, her tutor Natsumi, and their servant Shinji. The father is busy with work and rarely comes home to the mansion. Yuko lived in that house, never attending school, essentially in a state of confinement...
Director and cast
- Yutaka Ikejima Director
- Ryo Kurihara as Toshikuni Sakura
- Yukinojo as Yuko
- Rio Serizawa as Natsumi Shinohara
- Ryuji Yamamoto as Shinji
- Yutaka Ikejima as Kishida
- Naomi Sugishita as Emi
- Ayumi Tachibana as Satsuki
- Satomi Shinozaki as Mariko
- Tokio Jindo as Man in threesome
- Yoshiyuki Hayashida as Man in threesome
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N/A
The Sakura family is a family of noble lineage, and it is lived there by their only daughter, Yuko, her tutor Natsumi, and their servant Shinji. The father is busy with work and rarely comes home to the mansion. Yuko lived in that house, never attending school, essentially in a state of confinement...
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- 1h
- Director
- Yutaka Ikejima
- Cast
- Ryo Kurihara, Yukinojo, Rio Serizawa

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