Five Filosophical Fables
Aug 14 1967
•1h 47m
•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
See allHiroyasu Sasaki
Jiro Yagi
Miiko Kiinjo
Rari Mitsuhashi
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