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Five Filosophical Fables

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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.

DirectorDonald Richie
WriterDonald Richie

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Cast · Directed by Donald Richie

HS
Hiroyasu Sasaki
JY
Jiro Yagi
MK
Miiko Kiinjo
RM
Rari Mitsuhashi
TE
Teiiji Endo

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