"Thick ones make your legs look lots slimmer, " says Rie Takahashi, a student in rural Mie prefecture.

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Court documents posted by the newspaper say the two Japanese women stabbed to death were 81-year-old Kazuko Uehara and 29-year-old Rie Sugiyama.

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But things pick up when the adult Tony (also played by Ogata), a technical illustrator who has grown up thinking nothing of his isolated existence, meets Eiko (Rie Miyazawa), a sweet young woman with an insatiable lust for couture clothing.

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