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Puppets Under Starry Skies
1978 5.1 (7 votes) 1h 39m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
Art Theatre Guild
Tokyo Video Center

Puppets Under Starry Skies (星空のマリオネット)

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Director: Hôjin Hashiura

Writer: Hôjin Hashiura, Atsushi Yamatoya

Director of Photography: Yûji Okumura

Top Cast

Yōichi Miura
Yōichi Miura

Hideo

Ako
Ako

Akemi

Kazuhito Takei

Hiroshi

Teizō Muta
Teizō Muta

Yuri Yamashina
Yuri Yamashina

Akira Shioji
Akira Shioji

Moeko Ezawa
Moeko Ezawa

Akemi's mother

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