Five Filosophical Fables

Five Filosophical Fables

1967•47m•6.4/10

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6.4/10(8)

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.

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Hiroyasu Sasaki

Jiro Yagi

Miiko Kiinjo

Rari Mitsuhashi

Teiiji Endo

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