Five Filosophical Fables

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.

• Release date
• August 14, 1967
• Runtime
• 47 min
• Director
• Donald Richie

Cast

H

Hiroyasu Sasaki

J

Jiro Yagi

M

Miiko Kiinjo

R

Rari Mitsuhashi

T

Teiiji Endo