Five Filosophical Fables

196747mNo ratings yet

Overview

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.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: August 14, 1967
Original language: English
Countries: Japan
Cast: Teiiji Endo,Miiko Kiinjo,Rari Mitsuhashi,Jiro Yagi,Hiroyasu Sasaki
Director: Donald Richie
Writer: Donald Richie
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0218250