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During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall....
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Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the ma...
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