Released
Five Filosophical Fables
August 14 1967 (over 57 years ago)Rating
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7 reviews
- Director: Donald Richie
- Runtime: 47 m
- Country: Japan
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.