Five Filosophical Fables

Name: Five Filosophical Fables
Released: 1967-08-14T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 47 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Hiroyasu Sasaki, Jiro Yagi, Miiko Kiinjo, Rari Mitsuhashi, Teiiji Endo

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.