Jan 21, 1978
99 min
Full-HD

Puppets Under Starry Skies (1978)

A young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl with a seedy sexual history and who even now is pregnant again. They share a predisposition for drug use and spend time together in an old house. He refuses the advances of the gay man, who then commits suicide. When a gang administers a beating to him, his father re-enters the scene and takes him home, along with the girl. However, the girl has decided to have her baby, and she goes to live with its father.

Category

Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Art Theatre Guild Tokyo Video Center

Yōichi Miura

Hideo

Ako

Akemi

Kazuhito Takei

Hiroshi

Teizō Muta

Yuri Yamashina

Akira Shioji

Moeko Ezawa

Akemi's mother

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