Scoutman

is a 2000 Japanese film written and directed by Masato Ishioka. Plot Twenty-year-old Atsushi and his seventeen-year-old girlfriend Mari arrive in Tokyo from the suburbs with plans to marry despite their parent's objections but they are soon pulled into the city's dark underside. Atsushi meets Miki, a fading adult video (AV) actress, and gets introduced by the veteran Yoshiya to the occupation of "scoutman", recruiters who ply the streets trying to convince young girls to join the AV industry. Meanwhile, Mari, looking for work, runs into Kana who initiates her into the business of selling tickets to swinger's parties. The young couple continue to fall deeper into the seductions of Tokyo's sex industry and away from each other. Cast Miku Matsumoto as Mari Hideo Nakaizumi as Atsushi Yuka Fujimoto as Kana Akihito Yoshiie as Yoshiya Yuri Komuro as Miki Shirō Shimomoto as Sugishita Kei Morikawa as Director Production Director Masato Ishioka learned his trade working as an assistant director in the adult video (AV) industry under Tadashi Yoyogi at Athena Eizou for several years. Other veterans of the adult industry in the film include former AV star Yuri Komuro, playing the part of Miki, as well as actresses Fuka Sakurai and Yuna Miyazawa, and AV director Kei Morikawa in small roles.