TMDb Rating
6.4/10
8 verified votes
Five Filosophical Fables (1967)
47 min
Plot Summary
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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Donald RichieHiroyasu SasakiJiro Yagi1967
Director
Donald Richie
Top Cast
Hiroyasu SasakiJiro YagiMiiko KiinjoRari MitsuhashiTeiiji Endo
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