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Junk Food - 1997
This gritty crime drama takes place in the underworld of contemporary Tokyo, following a young woman who gives up her job as a successful computer programmer and her stable lifestyle for the downward spiral of drugs and dangerous sex in the Tokyo fringe. Along the way, director Masashi Yamamoto uses a mix of widescreen cinematography and digital video to provide documentary-style images of this dark subculture -- from gambling to murder to gang violence, Yamamoto vividly captures this degrading, demoralizing lifestyle.