Five Filosophical Fables

Name: Five Filosophical Fables
Released: 1967-08-14
Duration: 47 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Hiroyasu Sasaki, Jiro Yagi, Miiko Kiinjo, Rari Mitsuhashi, Teiiji Endo

1967 47 min

67%

Audience score9 votes on TMDB

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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.

Director: Donald Richie
Screenplay: Donald Richie
Status: Released
Release date: 14/08/1967
Original language: English