Five Filosophical Fables

47m
6.6

Donald Richie’s classic is, in the words of Yukio Mishima, an outrageous farce, and a pitiless indictment of all our false ‘human’ values. As an allegory of an ‘all-consuming’ Tokyo family cannibalizing each other in a Tokyo park, it attains the highest reaches of black humour.

Cast

Hiroyasu Sasaki
Unknown
Jiro Yagi
Unknown
Miiko Kiinjo
Unknown
Rari Mitsuhashi
Unknown
Teiiji Endo
Unknown

Crew

Donald Richie
Director, Writer, Editor, Music
Makoto Yamaguchi
Cinematography

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